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1 | NT canon in 1st century or 350 AD? | Ps 119:89 | Tamara Brewington | 204001 | ||
Ok guys I got a question about the canon, I am sure this has been kicked around before. I got this kooky professor and he claims that the NT church had a finalized canon of the Bible floating around way before 350 AD. Wanna help me out? Any truth at all to this idea? I keep trying to ask him, you mean that the apostles and elders had a few books of the NT together and were sharing it around? He goes no, the canon as we know it was going around, just trying to clarify the scope of what he meant there... God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
2 | NT canon in 1st century or 350 AD? | Ps 119:89 | srbaegon | 204002 | ||
Hello Tamara, Your professor is correct that there was a group of texts considered to be authoritative prior to Nicea--the whole OT for instance. As for the NT, we have internal evidence of the same with Peter referring to Paul's letters as scripture (2 Peter 3:15-16). There are also many authoritative references to the NT in the early church fathers. Steve |
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3 | NT canon in 1st century or 350 AD? | Ps 119:89 | Tamara Brewington | 204133 | ||
Say Steve, I don't think I got this until I just checked the thread... Talkin bout the NT only, my mistake in my question... Got it that Peter refers to Paul, and yes there were authoritative references to most of the NT with the church Fathers, but that was most, not all. 1)Marcion anyone, didn't he have the first known compiled canon and didn't it leave out a vast amount of books in the NT that he didn't believe belonged there? 2)But as to there being a full canon of the NT like we have today, would you give that a date of first century, or 350 AD? 3)Wasn't there ongoing arugumentation amongst the church fathers up till about 350 AD as to whether some of the letters of Paul were to be included, is that wrong or right? God Bless, Tamara |
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4 | NT canon in 1st century or 350 AD? | Ps 119:89 | srbaegon | 204364 | ||
Hi Tamara, 1. Marcion compiled a canon with his own edited version of Luke and Paul's writings--none others. 2. The Muratorian Fragment is the earliest known list of the canonical NT and dates to about A.D. 170. 3. Yes, there was some disagreement (certainly not "ongoing argumentation") among the church fathers. The material written by apostles was readily accepted. And nobody disagreed that the questioned material was important and beneficial for church life and Christian conduct. Hope this helps. Sorry I was unavailable until now. My wife and I went camping. Steve |
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5 | NT canon in 1st century or 350 AD? | Ps 119:89 | Tamara Brewington | 204391 | ||
Wow, camping, great! Haven't gone since I lived in Washington state as a kid! Thanks a whole buch for getting back to me on this. I was required to go give my pastor an explanation of what my theology class was taught like and this came up. I did go on line trying to study and found out there was a letter from Athanasius that had a complete list of our present NT canon by 365 AD. What I was being taught in class was way off. I was being taught that all, every, book we now have in the NT was accepted as canon in the first century and that there was no contention on any level that they all belonged in the canon, which is clearly incorrect. It helps, thanks again. God Bless, the hat lady |
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