Guru Arjan for having composed and circulated them. The concern and the possibility of wrong propaganda, immoral teachings and inauthentic "Gurbani" led Guru Arjan to initiate a major effort to collect, study, approve and compile a written official scripture, and this he called "Adi Granth", the first edition of the Sikh scripture by 1604. The composition of both Prithi Chand and his followers have been preserved in the Mina texts of Sikhism, while the mainstream and larger Sikh tradition adopted the "Guru Granth Sahib" scripture that ultimately emerged from the initiative of Guru Arjan. According to the Sikh tradition, Guru Arjan compiled
John Calvin's view of Scripture John Calvin's view of Scripture John Calvin's view of Scripture includes the ideas that Scripture is necessary for human understanding of God's revelation, that it is the equivalent of direct revelation, and that it is both "majestic" and "simple." Calvin's general, explicit exposition of his view of Scripture is found mainly in his "Institutes of the Christian Religion". Calvin viewed Scripture as necessary in two ways. First, he held that general revelation cannot in itself give humanity a saving knowledge of God. Although he can be known in some ways through creation he has "added the light of his Word