RE: The Christian Canon
August 3, 2018 at 1:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2018 at 1:08 am by RoadRunner79.)
(August 2, 2018 at 11:50 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I was watching a Christian apologist on YouTube claiming that the Council of Nicea had nothing to do with the Christian canon. A brief jaunt through google seems to have confirmed this. I guess I was misinformed.
So I looked into the matter.
This article says that it formed organically by an "ancient and widespread consensus"... without any politics or officiation. The article's author has an obvious bias, so I'd like to know: Is it accurate at all? Or is it just more bullshit apologetics? Can anyone give an impartial summary of how the canon formed or provide an unbiased link explaining how it did/might have formed organically, through officiation, or otherwise?
What about all the apocrypha out there? Who decided all that stuff was out? It seems official decisions were made somewhere along the line. Where?
He cited Ehrman in the article. Why do you think that there is obvious bias (I assume that you mean eneough to make it untrustworthy)?
If as you correctly stated, it was not formed at Nicea or any other council, or official proclamation. Then wouldn’t the a natural adoption of the text by the people and Churches be left?
This matches my understanding of what occurred. Kruger has worked a lot on this topic, and is a good resource.
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If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
