[QUOTE][b]For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book[/QUOTE]
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Robert; when Revelations was written there was no Bible, it had not yet been compiled. The threat of adding to that book is a reference to the Book of Revelations, not to the Bible itself.
As for Galatians, it is a letter specifically addressed to the churches in Galatia which were being distorted by foreign religious concepts. You will note that if God wanted to give you another gospel, you'd better listen regardless of what Paul told the Galatians. If you refused, then, this is another example of Christian Fundamentalism turning into a Bible-worshipping cult.
In fact, what can and cannot be included in the Bible is almost completely arbitrary. There is the Apocrypha which is included in some, and the Song of Solomon, which is omitted in some others. In fact, the Bible itself is product of Emperor Constantine, what Constantine wanted in the Bible was put there, what Constantine didn't want was left out.
What you call infallible is actually the result of some very fallible religious scholars arguing over what was spiritually important and what wasn't. I hope they got it right, don't you?
[This message has been edited by gene90, 04-17-2002]
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