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| | What is the canon of Scripture? |
 | | The basis of Christianity is found in the authority of Scripture. | | | Scripture was Scripture when the pen touched the parchment. | | | The church councils did not declare if a book was Scripture or not, God decided that when the human author was chosen by Him to write. |
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http://www.gotquestions.org/canon-of-Scripture.html
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| | The Attack on the Canon of Scripture |
| | This is contrary to all the doctrines of the Scriptures. | | | The “everlasting covenant” commanded that the Canon of Scripture is to be “made known to all nations for the obedience to the faith” [Rom 16:25-26], which means that the original words given in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek as books were to be translated into other languages. | | | Turretin said, “The Scriptures are called canonical for a double reason, both with regard to the doctrines (because they are the canon and standard of faith and practice, derived from the Hebrew QNH [qaneh], which signifies a “reed” or surveyor’s pen and is so used in Gal. |
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| | The canon of Scripture |
| | The canon is not ‘determined’ by the church or church leaders. | | | Nor is it possible to argue from the Bible that the magisterium is infallible, for that presupposes that the canon of the Bible is known for certain (apart from the infallible declaration by the magisterium). | | | Rather, Scripture was given by God to His people as the infallible rule of faith, and as such it has been recognized and handled to succeeding generations. |
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http://www.justforcatholics.org/a101.htm
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| | The Validity of Ancient Texts and the Canon of Scripture |
| | For most Bible believers the canonical books are considered sacred and valid for religious interpretation as they are "inspired" by God and are the "infallible" words of God. | | | Because of these clear allusions to the New Testament scriptures, it has been assumed by Jews and Christians alike that the "Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs" were written well after the Gospels, probably in the middle ages by Christians attempting to give the gospels validity. | | | It is our belief that the books of the Bible were written by godly men who sought to record their life and the lives of their ancestors and the relationships they had with God. |
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http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/beythakadosh/canon.html
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| | At first the sayings of Jesus and the writings of the apostles were often quoted alongside the OT Scripture as having a similar authority but not as themselves constituting Scripture. | | | He opposed Christian tradition and the church's Scripture, but from this it is clear that he acknowledged the existence of a church canon (pp. | | | Before the term 'canon' was invented, a variety of names were already used by Jews and Christians for the collection of their sacred books, some, such as 'the Holy Scriptures', going back to the 1st century (Rom. |
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http://www.shakinandshinin.org/NDBT-IntroToBiblicalTheology2of6.html
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| | CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH |
| | Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.[112] | | | According to a saying of the Fathers, Sacred Scripture is written principally in the Church's heart rather than in documents and records, for the Church carries in her Tradition the living memorial of God's Word, and it is the Holy Spirit who gives her the spiritual interpretation of the Scripture (". | | | Be attentive to the analogy of faith.[82] By "analogy of faith" we mean the coherence of the truths of faith among themselves and within the whole plan of Revelation. |
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http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/profess4.html
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| | Canon of Scripture |
| | Likewise, the list of the Scriptures of the New and Eternal Testament, which the holy and Catholic Church receives: of the Gospels, one book according to Matthew, one book according to Mark, one book according to Luke, one book according to John. | | | Marcion eliminated the Old Testament as scriptures and, since he was anti-Semitic, kept from the New Testament only 10 letters of Paul and 2/3 of Luke's gospel (he deleted references to Jesus's Jewishness). | | | ITEM, that besides the Canonical Scriptures nothing be read in church under the name of divine Scripture. |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/katholicos/canon.htm
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| | GIRS Summary Studies in Reformed Theology: The Canon of Scripture |
| | Alternatives for naming the two major divisions of the Bible are: The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, The Old and New Covenant, and The Pre-Messianic and Post-Messianic Scriptures. | | | One of the great cries of the Reformation was "Sola Scriptura" which means "Scripture alone." The reformers saw the Bible as the one unquestioned standard by which all matters of faith and practice must be examined. | | | The early church understood itself to be an expression of the new covenant in fulfillment of that which God promised in the Old Testament. |
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http://www.girs.com/library/theology/syllabus/canon.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Canon of the New Testament |
| | Cyprian, whose Scriptural Canon certainly reflects the contents of the first Latin Bible, received all the books of the New Testament except Hebrews, II Peter, James, and Jude; however, there was already a strong inclination in his environment to admit II Peter as authentic. | | | The Coptic-Arabic Church include with the canonical Scriptures the Apostolic Constitutions and the Clementine Epistles. | | | That the Gospel and Epistles were the written Word of God, was fully realized as soon as the fixed collections were formed; but to seize the relation of this new treasure to the old was possible only when the faithful acquired a better knowledge of the faith. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm
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| | Canon of Scripture |
| | Some scholars see the Scriptures as a unity provided by God, complete in all ways with respect to his redemptive work through Jesus Christ and thus extricate themselves from the debate over tradition and the authority of the church being the main criteria for inclusion in the canon. | | | It is important to note there is no scriptural instruction to be found that would have told the early church to form a Canon (the word does not appear in Scripture). | | | The historically evidence of the Canons of both the Old Testament and New Testament must be examined to see how the early church came to accept and recognise them in the form we have today. |
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http://www.forrestministries.com/canon.htm
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| | Canon Of Scripture |
| | NIV says in the footnotes of 2Tim+3:16-17 or possibly "all scripture that is God breathed is also useful for" | | | The idea of recognizing scripture by its quality strikes me as doubtful in practice. | | | Whether a newly uncovered book would be accepted as part of Holy Scripture by a non-Orthodox, non-Catholic, Christian denomination would be up to the denomination, wouldn't it? |
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http://clublet.com/c/c/why?CanonOfScripture
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| | Blue Letter Bible - Help, Tutorials, and FAQs |
| | Any book that claimed canonical status, yet diverted from the truth of the life of Christ,, would have been rejected by Jesus' own disciples who were, eyewitnesses to the New Testament events. | | | However, He did say that the Scriptures were the authoritative Word of God and could not be broken. | | | There are a group of writings which are considered part of Old Testament Scripture by the Roman Catholic church but are not accepted as inspired by the Protestant church and Judaism. |
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http://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/canon.html
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| | Q/A: Canon of Scripture? Temple necessary? |
| | Jn3:16 The Scriptures (since the "word was God", Scripture is part of God's essence) are our plumbline for "instruction in righteousness" 2Tim3:16 But those who do not receive the Son God sent, pervert it, and rather than receiving "everlasting life", pervert it to their "own destruction". | | | Because of this, I feel I can ask you a question such as the one I have, concerning the present canon of Scripture we have, which we call 'the Bible'. | | | I have been on your mailing list for a few months now, at least, and have found you to be among the few that seem to approach the Scriptures in an unbiased manner. |
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http://www.a-voice.org/qa/temple.htm
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| | The Canon of Scripture |
| | While Scripture is "given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16-17), it is not sufficient for reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness. | | | It is to them, to the Church Fathers, to the Sacred Deposit of Faith, to the living Church that is guided by the Holy Spirit, and to Scripture that we must prayerfully look. | | | The Epistle of Pope Clement, written in the first century, refers to the Books Ecclesiasticus and Wisdom, analyzed the book of Judith, and quotes sections of the book of Esther that were removed from Protestant Bibles. |
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http://www.kensmen.com/catholic/septuagint.html
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| | Apocrypha Rejected from Canon of Scripture |
| | B. Satan quoted the scriptures to Jesus when tempting Him in the wilderness. | | | Besides the fact that Jesus and the apostles never once quoted from it; and aside from its obvious lack of inspiration and anointing (it "just doesn't sound like" scripture; "My sheep hear My voice," John 10; etc.) – there are many solid reasons for rejecting its contents from being included with the canonical scriptures. | | | a pure heart, for the scriptures can be misused. |
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http://www.dianedew.com/apocryph.htm
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| | The Canon of Scripture |
| | That's because the Church set the canon of Scripture, and she did so under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. | | | They will often quote Romans 3:2, which says, "The Jews are entrusted with the oracles of God." They reason that since God entrusted the Old Testament to the Jews, they should be the ones who determine which books belong in it. | | | In Revelation 22:19 the apostle John proclaims, "If any one takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book." It's true that this verse refers to the book of Revelation. |
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http://www.staycatholic.com/the_canon_of_scripture.htm
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| | The canon of Scripture |
| | I conclude by saying that the books which were to form the future completed canon forced themselves on the Church by their intrinsic prophetic and apostolic authority, as they still do, because the Lord Christ speaks in them. | | | Though the church of the early centuries had a unique role to play in the recognition of what constitutes the Holy Bible and what not, she was not the primary factor. | | | As such it is applied by Christians, by way of eminence, to the collection of sacred writings of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. |
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| | Bible Preservation: Scripture Transmission, Ancestry, Canon |
| | Note that the Scripture was still accurate and authoritative, even though it had been preserved for centuries and though God& people had neglected it and been in apostasy for years. | | | Clearly Jesus and His apostles expected people to view the Scripture as authority to be studied and respected as revelation from God, even though it had been in existence for as much as 1400 years. | | | The Scriptures still were accurately preserved and were to be studied and obeyed as God& law. |
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http://www.biblestudylessons.com/cgi-bin/gospel_way/bible_preservation.php
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| | bible.org: The Bible: The Holy Canon of Scripture |
| | The more recent books of the cults which are placed alongside the Bible are not inspired and have no claim to be part of the canon of Scripture. | | | There are a number of important considerations that must be kept in mind when considering the issue of canonicity or how the books of the Bible came to be recognized and held to be a part of the Bible. | | | Since A.D. 397 the Christian church has considered the canon of the Bible to be complete; if it is complete, then it must be closed. |
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| | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. IV |
| | From the thirty-ninth Letter of Holy Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, on the Paschal festival; wherein he defines canonically what are the divine books which are accepted by the Church. | | | But they are an invention of heretics, who write them when they choose, bestowing upon them their approbation, and assigning to them a date, that so, using them as ancient writings, they may find occasion to lead astray the simple. | | | But the former, my brethren, are included in the Canon, the latter being [merely] read; nor is there in any place a mention of apocryphal writings. |
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http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-04/Npnf2-04-93.htm
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| | The Canon of Scripture |
| | The attempts to mimic Scripture in after ages comes as no surprise therefore—yet we have the assurance that the eyes of the Lord are always upon His truth (Jer. | | | So any writing or statement claiming to be of equal authority with scripture must be in complete harmony with apostolic teaching. | | | The apostles either penned or dictated the original autographs and they were given to the ecclesia where they were instantly recognized as Scripture. |
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http://www.biblemagazine.com/magazine/vol-8/issue-4/canon.html
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| | Canon of Scripture |
| | John Wyclif, known as the morning star of the Reformation, stated "The scriptures are the property of the people and no one should be allowed to wrest it from them." The first Wiclif Bible was a literal translation from the Latin Vulgate. | | | century were the first to write the Hebrew scripture in verse form. | | | Tyndale was burned at the stake in 1535 for wanting to give the scriptures to the people. |
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http://www.biblefacts.org/bible/cannon.html
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| | The New Testament Canon |
| | Although indeed there was, roughly speaking, a broad consensus in the early Church as to what books were scriptural, there still existed enough divergence of opinion to reasonably cast doubt on the Protestant concepts of the Bible's self-authenticating nature, and the self-interpreting maxim of perspicuity. | | | This is not as simple as it may seem at first, accustomed as we are to accepting without question the New Testament as we have it today. | | | Polycarp first uses all four Gospels now in Scripture |
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| | IVP The Canon of Scripture |
| | How did the books of the Bible come to be recognized as Holy Scripture? | | | Scholars have raised many other questions as well. | | | After nearly nineteen centuries the canon of Scripture still remains an issue of debate. |
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http://ivpress.gospelcom.net/cgi-ivpress/book.pl/code=1258
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| | Canon of Scripture |
| | Books > Doctrinal Topics > Doctrine of the Word > Canon of Scripture | | | Why do Roman Catholic Bibles include the Apocrypha? | | | Publisher's Notes: After nearly nineteen centuries the canon of Scripture still remains an issue of debate for Christians and scholars: How did these books come to be recognized as Holy Scripture? |
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http://www.trinitybookservice.org/1258x.html
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| | The Canon of Scripture by Bruce, Frederick Fyvie - ShopCBN |
| | The Canon of Scripture by Bruce, Frederick Fyvie - ShopCBN | | | F.F. Bruce examines the historical evidence for acceptance of the canon and addresses several central issues: the criteria of canonicity, the idea of a canon within the canon, and canonical criticism. | | | Choose a category to see what we recommend: |
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http://www.parable.com/cbn/item_083081258X.htm
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