05-12-2011, 11:58 AM
Rafa Wrote:konway87 Wrote:Thanks, Rafa. But what do you think about Revelation?
I think it is a classic pseudo-Ephrem just like the theotokos poem writing one. Some people later on might have added Revelation to the canon, but these people were farther away from the conservative core of the ACOE in Babylon. I myself believe in a 27 book canon but the evidence for the ACOE having ever believed in one seems non-existent. By the way, there was a quote here somewhere from a 10th century (Saint) Patriarch of Constantinople who said these books were not part of the canon. Now if that is what they believed in Constantinople...imagine the ACOE. Again I have a private belief in these books but they were never ACOE canon according to the evidence presented so far.
Rafa, i think you misunderstood the question, revelations is not pseudo-ephrem, it was written by the Apostle John. I know our Church (ACOE) has not canonized it, but we still refer to it and I am sure we believe it is inspired and true.