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 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…
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…
Brief Overview The biblical canon was formally defined at councils held in North Africa, making the continent central to the history of how Christians received their Bible. The…
Brief Overview The seven deuterocanonical books that Protestants removed contain some of the most powerful prophecies, prayers, and moral teachings in all of Scripture. Most Protestants have never…
Brief Overview Every book of the New Testament was written by a member of the early Catholic Church, and the canon was formally defined at Catholic councils in…
Brief Overview The Book of Enoch is directly quoted in the New Testament at Jude 1:14-15, making it one of the most significant non-canonical texts in Christian history.…
