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Canon of the Bible

The expression "Bible canon" over tme came to denote the collection, or list, of books accepted as genuine inspired Scripture. The term "canon" is derived from the Hebrew word qa·nehʹ (reed). Reeds were used as a rule or measuring device.

At least forty years separates the death of Jesus from the writing of the first gospel. Paul's Epistles predates the Gospels.

The first 5 books of the Torah were all believed to have written by Moses around about 1,300 B.C.

Many other books were in the Old Testament but we're not accepted into the modern text.

But it would appear that the first attempt to creat a canon of the New Testament was Marcion of Sinope. He was the first known professing Christian leader in recorded history to propose and delineate a uniquely uniform Christian canon (c. AD 140).

This included 10 epistles from St. Paul, as well as a version of the Gospel of Luke, which today is known as the Gospel of Marcion.

The Muratorian Canon, which is believed to date to 200 A.D., is the earliest compilation of canonical texts resembling the New Testament. It was not until the 5th century that all the different Christian churches came to a basic agreement on Biblical canon.

First Council of Nicaea in 325 is reported to be the first ecumenical council of the church ordered by the emperor Constantine I, an unbaptized catechumen, who presided over the opening session upon a golden throne calling himself the Bishop of Bishops.

The council did not really establish the canon of the Bible but neither did they remind each member they were not to exercise authority over the [[conscience][ of other.

The meeting was focussed the resolution of the Arian Controversy over the status of Jesus as “God the Son” in relation to “God the Father” in the doctrine of the Trinity. Jesus never detailed a trinity as an essential Doctrine like he did with His statement concerning not to exercise authority one over the [[conscience][ of an other.

If Jesus wanted us to adopt the Nicene Creed He would have spoken more about it's elements.

Constantine did not only reject the doctrines of Jesus he actively worked against them by immoral funding a religious institution with the spoils of war spotted by his world that flaunted a callus disregard for the Doctrines of Jesus concerning rulers who exercise authority one over the other, covetous practices, [[swear]ing oaths, to say nothing of the appetite for the dainties of rulers and the tables which are a snare.

In a letter of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, c. 367, he offered a list of exactly the same books that would formally become the New Testament canon, coin the word “canonized” (κανονιζομενα).