Q.
40
Why haven’t any new books been added to the
Bible in almost two thousand years? Is there
a chance any new books will ever be added?
Why or why not?
Joshua Einsohn
Who is...
?
Joshua Einsohn
I am angered and confused by (and
stubbornly unaccepting of) willful ignorance.A.
Considering the level of healthy skepticism and the wealth of
knowledge that exists now that didn’t exist two thousand years
ago, it’s highly unlikely that we’ll be seeing any additions to
the Bible.
We have science now and we can explain way too much for much of
anything to seem like a miracle anymore. There’s also way too much informa-
tion out there; we can fi nd out anything about anyone and at some point, we’d
fi nd out that a new potential prophet has a “nanny problem” or that they slept
with a church member of the same sex or one of the myriad of reasons that
previously reputable people are thrown under the proverbial bus.
Also, let’s imagine for one minute that a well-respected member of soci-
ety were to go up a mountain and come back down with new, crazy-sounding
laws that they got from a shrub that was on fi re.
Uh-huh.
Most of us would back away slowly and call the men with the pretty
white jackets that have all those straps and buckles. Of the people who
remained, a few would be potential believers. The rest would just want to
know where they got the amazing weed.
The mystery and mythology of history has given the Bible it’s “cred” and
it would take a global communication crisis of apocalyptic proportions before
that would change.