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To: fishtank; conservativguy99; JLLH
Either way, those books were quickly recognized as canonical.

Quite wrong, the level of historical revisionism among some is incredible.

Origen in the 200s travelled the Christian world and indicated that the ONLY books of the New Testament of the Bible (note again the Bible is a collection of Books) were the Gospels, the thirteen Pauline Epistles, Acts, Apocalypse, I Peter, and I John

The contested writings were Hebrews, II Peter, II and III John, James, Jude,

228 posted on 01/04/2012 9:37:22 PM PST by Cronos (Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
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To: Cronos

Correction, Revelation was contested until the late 4th century.

It still is not read in Church by Eastern Orthodox and Catholics of the Byzantine rite.


230 posted on 01/04/2012 9:51:20 PM PST by rzman21
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