. God, the Bible, truth and Christian theology . ^ -(j. AND CHEISTIAN THEOLOGY 193 idly the latter part of the first century be-fore the Christian Era; in fact, so muchso that Sacredness, Divinity and Canon-icity were about identical. Previous to and about the time of thedeath of Jesus, the Jews had become veryfanatical over their fabulous and fictitiousreligion which they had come to look uponas being the word of God, and some ofthem did not hesitate to state that if anyperson dared to believe in or read anybooks outside of the Orthodox JewsCanon, he would lose all hope of immortallife. One w
. God, the Bible, truth and Christian theology . ^ -(j. AND CHEISTIAN THEOLOGY 193 idly the latter part of the first century be-fore the Christian Era; in fact, so muchso that Sacredness, Divinity and Canon-icity were about identical. Previous to and about the time of thedeath of Jesus, the Jews had become veryfanatical over their fabulous and fictitiousreligion which they had come to look uponas being the word of God, and some ofthem did not hesitate to state that if anyperson dared to believe in or read anybooks outside of the Orthodox JewsCanon, he would lose all hope of immortallife. One writer says:— The degree of authority attaching to theBiblical books grew from less to greater, till itculminated in a divine character, a sacredness ris-ing even to infallibility. The last overhauling that the Old Testa-ment had at the hands of the Jewish bodyof advisers took place at Jamnia; it wasthen decided by this council that the ^ Songof Solomon and Ecclesiastes, or ThePreacher were ungodly and did ^* pollutethe hands, that is to say, they we
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