Comments on: How were books of the Bible chosen? http://andrewconard.com/2008/04/22/how-were-books-of-the-bible-chosen/ Thoughts on faith, life and ministry... Tue, 29 May 2012 02:33:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Why were the disciples afraid to ask him when they did not understand? « Thoughts of Resurrection http://andrewconard.com/2008/04/22/how-were-books-of-the-bible-chosen/#comment-6689 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:04:05 +0000 http://thoughtsofresurrection.wordpress.com/?p=620#comment-6689 [...] How were books of the Bible chosen? Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Interpretation of Jesus Christ is LordHad the disciples heard of Jesus before? [...]

]]> By: Ben H. http://andrewconard.com/2008/04/22/how-were-books-of-the-bible-chosen/#comment-6658 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:57:17 +0000 http://thoughtsofresurrection.wordpress.com/?p=620#comment-6658 I’ve always thought cannon formation was a fascinating subject – I particularly like where it lines up with the Gospel of John. With prominent Bishops like Polycarp being aligned with the author. I’ve always wondered where we would be if Irenaeus hadn’t spoken his words about the four pillars.

Would we just have the synoptics?

]]> By: Earl http://andrewconard.com/2008/04/22/how-were-books-of-the-bible-chosen/#comment-6652 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:14:09 +0000 http://thoughtsofresurrection.wordpress.com/?p=620#comment-6652 I would think that Apostolic origin, Church usage and inspiration of the Holy Spirit were the main criteria.

]]> By: Chuck http://andrewconard.com/2008/04/22/how-were-books-of-the-bible-chosen/#comment-6651 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:03:10 +0000 http://thoughtsofresurrection.wordpress.com/?p=620#comment-6651 Oh – forgot one very important thing – As Christians paramount in our understanding of this process was the inspiration and Guiding of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said as he returned to the Father that the spirit would “Lead Us Into All Truth” Clearly this is not a scientific argument on the rational process by which they were chosen, but It is an important component of how we as people of faith believe that the process was guided.

]]> By: Chuck http://andrewconard.com/2008/04/22/how-were-books-of-the-bible-chosen/#comment-6650 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:55:56 +0000 http://thoughtsofresurrection.wordpress.com/?p=620#comment-6650 The other major consideration was, of course, apostolic authorship or attribution. Amazingly there continues to be wide consensus that Matthew was in fact the Apostle Matthew, Mark was a sort of chief of staff to Peter, Luke was closely related to both the apostles and traveled heavily with paul, and that John was in fact the apostle John. The early dating of both the synoptics and John also were a major consideration – as most of the psudopygrapha (sic) are dated much later than the Gospels. I would say that it was the Gospels themsleves and the early church writtings of paul and others that in fact ruled out other Gospels. In other words these four established the “Orthodoxy” by which other writtings were judged by the wider community.

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