Brief Overview The number of books in a Christian's Bible directly shapes the doctrines that Christian believes, a pattern that holds consistently across three thousand years of biblical…
Brief Overview Every ancient Christian community on earth, from Ethiopia and Egypt to India and Russia, kept the seven books that the Reformation removed and kept all seven…
Brief Overview Martin Luther removed seven books from the Old Testament in the early sixteenth century, books that every major Christian community had treated as Scripture for over…
Brief Overview The apostles preached the Gospel using the Greek Septuagint, the Old Testament translation that already contained the seven books Protestants would later remove. The New Testament…
Brief Overview The Pharisees accepted the full Hebrew Bible of thirty-nine books, and that wider canon directly produced their belief in the resurrection, angels, spirits, and final judgment.…
Brief Overview The Sadducees rejected the resurrection, angels, spirits, and the afterlife because they accepted only the first five books of the Old Testament as authoritative Scripture. A…
Brief Overview The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church holds nearly every major doctrine the Catholic Church holds, including the Trinity, the Real Presence, Marian veneration, the intercession of saints,…
Brief Overview The Catholic Mass and the Ethiopian Orthodox Divine Liturgy share more than most Catholics realize, including incense, beeswax candles, ancient liturgical languages, fixed prayer hours, and…
Brief Overview The Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church all hold to the same seven Sacraments, while most Protestant traditions reduced the count…
Brief Overview The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon contains eighty-one books, the Catholic canon seventy-three, and most Protestant Bibles only sixty-six, which means three Christian families are reading three…
