The Christian Canon

[Pat Mustard]

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?

Ancient and widespread consensus my arse. Even a quick scan through the relevant wikipedia article shows how drawn out and political the process actually was.