Marcus Borg from The Huffington Post blogs about The New Testament put as closely in order as possible from mainstream biblical scholar agreement.
It apparently changes the perspective of how Christianity came about and was shaped by the first Christian communities by putting a lot of Paul’s letters before the written Gospels; Mark’s being the first, where Matthew and Luke clearly based theirs on, and added to, then John appearing even later, speaking more metaphorically.
I should mention that the bottom of the article includes a slide-presentation of the chronological books; a brief description of what the book contains and why it is placed where it is, which is a glimpse into the more interesting aspects of the re-ordering, rather than the article itself.
Actually, there are probably quite a few movies where, if you put the scenes in the order they were filmed as opposed to the order in which the events depicted take place, it would result in a different (and much more confusing) movie.
I don’t buy that the literalists would care. Sure, maybe KJV-only practitioners, since their position is based more on not liking change. But I grew up as a literalist, and I knew the order of the books forever.
