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Origin of the New Testament
This dispute would seem to put Christians, especially non-Roman Catholic Christians in quite a precarious situation. Protestant Christians especially would seem to be dependant on the Roman Catholic Church for their source of faith -- indeed, Roman Catholics often make such a claim.
But is the NT really a late-date compilation? The historical Roman Catholic version puts the final, official canon of the NT with the Tridentine Council between 1545-1563AD, which would be quite a late date indeed.
However, there is clear evidence that not only the "Tetramorph" (the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John) but also most of the currently accepted texts of the NT were accepted & in wide use long before the Council of Trent or any such Church Council.
What follows is a table I have constructed from various sources that shows the approximate date of "canons", "catalogues" -- lists of NT texts accepted by differring groups of early Christians. You will see that there was a consistent acceptance of our present "Homologoumena" -- authoritative NT texts. I aslo include a list of resource links that I highly encourage the reader to follow & examine each.
Download Chart: MSWORD or PDFNEW TESTAMENT CANONS/CATALOGUES
1 Rejected entire OT & added epistle to Laodiceans 2 This was a harmonization into one of the four individual Gospels 3 This is not so much a catalogue as it is a diglottic of the Pauline epistles, though it contains a later dated inserted canon list RESOURCES: · http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ · http://celestinelight.org/Canonization-Timeline-Chart.htm · http://www.kchanson.com/papyri.html · http://www.bible-researcher.com/canon8.html · http://www.pohick.org/sts/papyrolo.html · http://members.fortunecity.com/christianfact/b_newlist.htm · http://grigaitis.net/?doc=articles/canon.html · http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/canon.php · http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Canon#Christian_canons
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