The Christian Canon

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The only canon that would make any sense to me, and be actually useful, would be to carefully date the order of the texts. This has been done for most of them I imagine, so why not include them all? I can understand that a "pocket book" cannot always accomodate all relevant sources, but that's hardly the reasoning the bible uses.

I wonder how many Christians even know that the real order of the gospels is Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, unlike the order they are presented. Mind you, most probably think they were all written about the same, and during Jesus's lifetime.