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To: Raycpa

Raycpa: I had never heard of the Muratorian Canon and looked it up in the Catholic Encyclopedia. It is truly an important document, but it seems to be derived from a time even earlier than that used in your timeline.


112 posted on 07/03/2006 5:27:20 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: gaspar

A catholic source gives this date:

It was written in Rome itself or in its environs about 180-200

Dates vary depending on what someone basis their system of dating on.

The important thing for me is that it was obvious that there was a wide spread early consensus about what was scripture and what was not very early on.

The fact that these early writings were used all over the world makes it fairly impossible for some latter day political group to force feed a different canon.

It would be like the NYT trying to republish yesterdays paper.


113 posted on 07/03/2006 8:30:11 AM PDT by Raycpa
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