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A biblical canon is a list of books considered to be authoritative as scripture by a particular religious community.
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How did the Catholic Church determine that the deuterocanon was Sacred Scripture? The Jews didn't include them in their Sacred Scripture, right?
I'm reading the Apostolic Fathers and found a reference to the book of Tobit from Polycarp. Why do Catholics place the deuterocanon as Sacred Scripture?
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Why Does The Ethiopian Bible Have More Books?
I always hear people use the Ethiopian Bible as evidence that our modern more common Bibles, such as the King James Bible, have been corrupted over the years. The apocryphal books in the dead sea ...
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How do translators decide what to use for the title of books of the Bible?
I've noticed occasionally, people use slightly different names for the books of of the Bible (especially in older literature). For example, sometimes Revelation is called Apocalypse. In the Orthodox ...
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What did the people who set the Protestant canon of the Bible believe were the requirements for salvation?
In answering a question on Bible Hermeneutics.SE, Carly Perkins asked,
"Why can [Protestants] believe the men who decided which books were in the canon (around 400 A.D.) but not believe what they ...
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Does the Book of Jubilees imply that the Genesis and Exodus narratives are disorganized or incomplete?
The Book of Jubilees is included in the canon of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and known from the Dead Sea Scrolls. It retells the events of Genesis and part of Exodus, but with significant expansions,...
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Does the Gospel of John show a Jesus who promotes hatred against Jews?
In the Gospel of John, the term "Jews" appears significantly more often than in the Synoptic Gospels — 66 times in John compared to 5 in Matthew, 6 in Mark, and 4 in Luke. [1]
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Does the Eastern Orthodox have an infallible canon list?
One of the common criticisms of Sola Scriptura (meaning that Scripture is the only infallible rule for Christians) is that the canon list is not found in the Bible itself, so Protestants rely on ...
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According to proponents of Sola Scriptura, is it possible for someone to accept both Sola Scriptura and a canon of less than 66 books?
This question is inspired by part of an answer given to a recent question:
It is God alone who has created the canon, our human responsibility is only to recognise it, which we have done better and ...
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What Protestant doctrines are refuted only by the Deuterocanonical books?
An answer to this question, How do Protestants make claims to follow scripture and ignore the traditions of the ancient church which produced the scriptures?, concerning the difference between ...
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How do Protestants make claims to follow scripture and ignore the traditions of the ancient church which produced the scriptures?
A recent highly upvoted answer on a different question sparked this question to me. It is at the bottom.
Searching found this similar but different question
I will quote the parts that sparked the ...
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Do we know what the book of the acts of Solomon was as mentioned in 1 Kings 11:41?
1 Kings 11:41 says:
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
What is the biblical and historical background ...
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When did Paul's letters become "orthodox" or widely accepted as such in Christian communities?
My impression is that Christ cults were pretty diverse in the first two centuries following Jesus' death, including Jewish and non-Jewish variations, as well as Roman and Eastern, but if Paul became ...
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What did Wayne Grudem mean by claiming that the canon was not "officially" decided until the Council of Trent?
In Systematic Theology chapter 3 "The Canon of Scripture", Wayne Grudem says
It was not until 1546, at the Council of Trent, that the Roman Catholic Church officially declared the Apocrypha ...
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Why was the book of Esther included in the canon?
The book of Esther is included in both the Jewish canon and Christian canons of all denominations. However, it seems to have enjoyed a questionable status for much longer than any other of the now-...
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Do Protestants believe that acceptance of their canon is an essential matter of faith?
Do any Protestant Christian movements/denominations believe that acceptance of the 39 book 'Old Testament/27 book 'New Testament', and only those 66 books as scripture is an essential doctrine of ...
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