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To: StAthanasiustheGreat
Answer the question. When was the NT (not the Old Testament) compiled and agreed upon by the early Church? We are asking for a date.

Don't have a date...The last Apostle to write was John...The book of Revelation...The book of Revelation goes up thru the final judgement and off into Glory...That's the end of the canon...

137 posted on 03/04/2007 10:28:38 AM PST by Iscool (There will be NO peace on earth, NOR good will toward men UNTIL there is Glory to God in the Highest)
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To: Iscool

And the date? Well, I'll tell you. It was in the fourth Century AD. A Church Council (those Catholics and Orthodox) authorized the Canon that you now know as the New Testament. They threw out books as uninspired or not Apostolic. The NT you read from was approved by a Church Council. What each community had prior to that was a compilation of letters and books that included both what would become the Canon, but also non-canonical books like the Acts of Peter or the Acts of John or the Clement's letter to the Romans.


140 posted on 03/04/2007 10:32:05 AM PST by StAthanasiustheGreat (Vocatus Atque Non Vocatus Deus Aderit)
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