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10 questions linked to/from When was the Biblical canon formalised?
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How does the Westminster Confession address the paradox of the Bible canon?
Chapter I, Article IV of the Westminster Confession (1647) reads:
The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man, or ...
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Why do Christians have different books in their Bible?
Some Bibles have all 4 Maccabees books, for example, while others don't. Some Bibles have Esdras and Wisdom, and yet others don't.
Why is this? If there was an agreement on what books would be in the ...
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Is there something in Sirach that caused it to be considered Apocrypha?
My limited research on the topic suggests the only reason Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus or Ben Sira, etc.) was put in the Apocrypha was because the Jewish canon excluded it. As for why the Jewish canon ...
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Does Catholicism allow the possibility of new books being added to the Bible?
The Catholic Church recognizes 73 books in the Bible (46 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament). Does the Church allow the possibility of new books being added to the Bible, perhaps in a "...
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Why was the epistle of Clement to Corinth not considered canonical?
I'm wondering on this one. I'm reading Eusebius and he states that at least one letter from the Bishop Clement (c. 35 AD - 99 AD) to Corinth was considered worthy to be read and was circulated among ...
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When did the idea of a scriptural "canon" originate?
This question What are the biblical arguments that the Bible canon is NOT closed? made me wonder:
1) When did the idea of a canon originate? I would suppose this should be quite early, and Jews ...
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When the early church was formalising the canon, what did they understand by the word 'Inspired'?
When the early church was formalising the Biblical canon, what specific definition of the word 'inspired' did they have in regard to the biblical literature?
I'm curious about how this relates to the ...
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Which Apocrypha are part of the Catholic and the Orthodox traditions and which are not? Why?
How do the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches differentiate between which Apocrypha are part of their holy tradition and which are not?
For example, the story of the Presentation of the Blessed ...
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How did attitues to the deutero-canonical books in the Western Churches change during the second millenium? [closed]
What was the pre-Reformation understanding and how did that change during and after the Reformation Era for Protestants and for Catholics? What is the current position?
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What was the reason and the contents of the title pages "Old Testament" and "New Testament" in the earliest codex (extant or not)?
By dividing the collection of books in the Bible into "Old Testament" and "New Testament", the compiler of the books of the Bible made a strong theological statement that something "old" has passed ...
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