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How We Got the New Testament Canon


The Formation of the New Testament Canon - Theology Matters

In the most basic sense neither individuals nor councils created the canon; instead they came to perceive and acknowledge the self-authenticating quality of ...

Development of the New Testament canon - Wikipedia

The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian ...

Establishing the New Testament Canon | Lifeway

Why? The need for canonicity ... The apostles got the church "off the ground," in a manner of speaking. They were God's authority on earth between the time of the ...

The Canonization of the New Testament | Religious Studies Center

Scholars have argued that a number of social, technological, and theological factors contributed to the selection and closure of New Testament canon.[26] The ...

How and when was the canon of the Bible put together?

Ultimately, it was God who decided what books belonged in the biblical canon. A book of Scripture belonged in the canon from the moment God ...

How Did We Get the New Testament Canon? - Explore the Bible

Three principal criteria seemed to emerge which the early church used in recognizing books that had been God inspired and thus canonical: ...

The Biblical Canon - The Gospel Coalition

These books were largely decided on by virtue of three factors: their divine qualities, reception by the churches, and connection to an apostle. Most of the NT ...

The New Testament canon: Why these 27 documents?

Contrary to the urban myth promoted in popular novels and on the Internet, the New Testament canon wasn't decided at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD by ...

Canonization of the Bible: Understanding How We Got the Bible

In 367 CE, Athanasius wrote his annual Easter letter to the people of his diocese. This letter contained a list of the books of the New ...

What was the process of deciding on the New Testament canon?

The canon is the list of those that God has given to the church by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Skeptics often say that the early church ...

How We Got the New Testament Canon - Seedbed

How did we get the New Testament canon as we know it today? In today's Seven Minute Seminary, Dr. David Watson dispels some common myths and ...

How We Got Our Bible: New Testament Canonical Grid

How We Got Our Bible: New Testament Canonical Grid · 1. First-century Jews regarded the Old Testament story as Incomplete · 2. God's Pattern of ...

How the New Testament Canon Came To Be: part one

“And the holy tetrad of the gospels must be set in first positions, which the book of the Apostles' Acts follows. And after this, Paul's letters ...

How We Got the New Testament Canon (David F. Watson) - YouTube

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The New Testament Canon | Evidence Unseen

As with the OT, the basis for canonicity for the NT is based on authorship: prophets for the OT and apostles for the NT. Paul writes that the church is built on ...

How Did We Get the New Testament? - Courage For Life

The books that were placed in the New Testament are called the canon, from the Greek word kanon, which means “rod” or “measuring stick.” These ...

Some Thoughts on the History of the New Testament Canon

Understood in this sense, the first time our New Testament canon can be said to have emerged in complete form is in AD 367 in the Easter letter of Athanasius,2 ...

How was the New Testament Canon Formed? (Part 1 of 2) - YouTube

How was the biblical canon formed? Who chose the books and why were some excluded? In Part-3 of this 5-Part series, Lee Martin McDonald and ...

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canon of the New Testament

The faithful must have had from the beginning some realization that in the writings of the Apostles and Evangelists they had acquired a new body of Divine ...

The Foundation of New Testament Canonicity - Scholars Crossing

recognize these 27 books as part of the biblical canon? This question is significant because Christians must have knowledge of the New. Testament's origin to ...