Scripture & the Canon
The Canon Problem That Breaks Sola Scriptura Cold
Brief Overview The Bible never provides its own table of contents, which means every Christian who opens a New Testament is already trusting a decision made by the…
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Church Councils & Doctrinal Development
Scripture & the Canon
Does the Number of Books in Your Bible Really Matter?
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…
Church History & Apologetics
The Ancient Churches That Never Lost the Seven Books
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…
Scripture & the Canon
The Seven Books That Were Removed From Christian Bibles
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…
Scripture & the Canon
The Bible Jesus and the Apostles Actually Used Daily
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…
Sacraments & Worship
Incense, Candles, the Ark: The Liturgy You Forgot
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…
Church History & Apologetics
Seven Sacraments: How Catholics, Ethiopia, and Others Differ
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…
Scripture & the Canon
Why Your Bible Has Fewer Books Than Ethiopia’s Bible
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…
Church History & Apologetics
How Far Are You From the Original Christian Faith?
Brief Overview The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has practiced the same faith, in the same language, with the same eighty-one book Bible, and the same seven Sacraments for…
Scripture & the Canon
Who Told You the Bible Has Only 66 Books?
Brief Overview The question of who determined the biblical canon is the single most effective challenge a Catholic can pose to any Protestant who holds to Scripture alone…
