try again fren. The Bible has tons of great and exciting stories, like when David hid in a Philistine city by pretending he was insane. they're not flashy and childish like pagan shit because they're real historical accounts. just watch Marvel movies if you want to enjoy fiction
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Of course you can, Christianity has never had a consensus on the canon ever in its existence. Neither did Judaism. If we had to accept every book that any Christian tradition called expired it'd be a Bible over 100 books big at this point.
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Marcion's canon + John, Thomas, Judas would do it for me. Revelation, Luke-Acts, & the other stuff could go.
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Hard disagree, we can't pick what we like and discard what we dislike, this will only amount to a kind of consumerist and syncretist mentality of creating a uniform 'canon' without understanding the underlying unity of Scripture
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You're presupposing a univocal series of scripture which isn't what we find when we read the Bible. Sometimes singular books don't agree with themselves, never mind the entire artificial corpus. I can't reconcile the Pastorals & Acts with Paul. I'd argue it's impossible.
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Must remember that every book can be read on 4 levels, and that what seems contradictory on a lower level is resolved on a higher level, this is especially relevant for 'inspired' works (but is also relevant for something like the Divine Comedy)
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In some cases but the pastorals were deliberately (in my view) written to be polemical works against the original gnostic Paul. Co-opting his movement. Acts is an unreliable historical narrative that fucks with Paul's message and introduces ahistorical junk w/ Peter/Paul
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Eh, are there any major christian churches that exclude Acts?
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No. But I could give a fuck. It's historically unreliable and I'd argue it's apart of that Lukan redaction community that messed with Marcion's gospel. There might be some true parts of it (I think the part where Christ quotes Dionysus is authentic) but it stems from prior trads
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