Brief Overview Five centuries after the Reformation, Protestants cannot agree among themselves on the most basic question a Christian can ask, which is how a person is actually…
Brief Overview Sola Scriptura claims the Bible alone is the final rule of faith, yet that very claim cannot be found anywhere inside the Bible itself. The doctrine…
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…
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,…
