The sideburn question

A man gets tired of his barber always cutting his sideburns unevenly;
So he goes out and hires a group of the best barbers money can buy, and puts them to the task.

They tirelessly work on the man for hours, and announces to him, that they are finished, and tells him that his sideburns are “perfect”.

He takes a look, but just can’t be sure:
So he hires another group of experts to look into the matter, and sure enough they promise, that they can do a better job. etc, etc, etc, etc, etc,
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Now, apply this to God’s Word.

About 1700 year ago(about 370AD), our Church fathers, started to canonize the Bible(this took about 1200 year or so), but finally they declare it to be God’s preserved Word, (inspired and without error).

And for the next 8 or 9 hundred years, things are great(for the most part):
Satan hated the Bible, and tried to destroy it, by burning every copy he can get his hands on, and also burning those who were making copies:
(But praise the LORD, God keeps His promise to us, and His Word prevailed.)

But all the time, Satan has another plan in the mix:
He had barbers, approaching God’s people here and there, telling them that the sideburns on the Bible, were not the same length.

But God’s people, being full of faith in the LORD, ignore these stories, and continue to see the wonderful things His Word can do.
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Finally, as the Lord’s return was getting closer, and Satan knowing that His time is short, double’s his efforts.

He enlists two master barbers(W & H), who started convincing people, that they can prove that the Bible’s sideburns weren’t the same length:

They had some special measuring tools(the oldest ones of there kind), and even though neither of these tools measure the same length, and had missing parts, they are convinced that if they could put them together, and start searching for the missing parts, that they can come up with a tool, that can fix the Bible’s sideburns.

Well, most Christians rejected this idea, for a few years, until the Supreme of Master Barber(BBW), agreed, that the Bible’s sideburns were not the same length, and that we aught to help (W & H), in their search for the missing parts to this new measuring tool, that they have put together.
And that noone should consider the Bible’s sideburns perfect, anymore.

Now at that time, by far 99% of the regular people still rejected this idea: having faith in God’s Word.

But over time, the Supreme of Master Barber, having had a great deal of influence over preachers and over schools, slowly began to convince everybody, that the Bible’s sideburns are not the same length.

And even today, the Supreme of Master Barber’s followers, will shout down anybody that says, that the Bible’s sideburns are perfect.

 

Hello canadyjd

Thanks for the info. about the canon.
I came up with my dates, because I read somewhere, that Martin Luther(1483 - 1546), in his time, was still trying to keep Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation out of the canon of Scripture:

So I just assumed, that the canon wasn’t nailed down, until around then.