The Catholic Epistles

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Chris,

[ The twenty-two book canon implies nothing other than disagreement over which book is Scripture. The Church of the East is only bold enough to completely separate itself from them. All of this tells me that Christians are disunified as to what exactly is the 'Word of God.' How then can they expect others to take the Bible seriously?

Churches have been playing "pick n' choose" for centuries now.

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There were a number of phases when it comes to the development of the Canon. The only thing the truncated church of the East Canon proves to me that it comes from an earlier time of Church history. And that in turn is most likely a result of them being isolated for the most part from the Chrisitans in the West, and therefore not adopting the larger Canon.


Basically before 367 AD, when Athanasius, who wrote the list of books that we now accept (which however was not fully ratified until 397). Basically the full NT canon. THE COE canon basically agrees with the earlier previous list of books both accepted and questioned by Eusebius.