The Protestant Canon Refuted?

Another venture –

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The Canon Question – is it falliable?

Okay, start here:

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5th Century Canonical Criticism

Below is a translation from an anonymous work, Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila, which has been dated to the early 5th century:

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Thoughts on the NLT Catholic Reference Bible and a Request to Tyndale

As many of readers may suspect, I greatly enjoy the New Living Translation and I make use of the Deuterocanonical books in certain aspects of my studies and in daily readings. Recently, I purchased a copy of what Tyndale billed as the Catholic Reference Edition (I’ll call it NLT:C), which was geared towards Catholics.
No, I’m […]

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Canon and the Council of Trent

One of the most enduring Protestant Myths is that in 1546, at the Council of Trent added to the Sacred Canon the books which are commonly termed the Apocrypha, or more recently, the Deuterocanon. In fact, contrary to this myth, what the Council did was to affirm what had been the Traditional Canon since the […]

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Books Mentioned and Used, But Not Found, In The Bible

One of the things we must deal with concerning Textual Criticism is that God has inspired books currently not found in the canon, and essentially no longer exists. We know of several works from the Apostle Paul which he wrote but have been lost, which even the Fathers didn’t see.

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Friday’s Question of the Day: How do you know Esther belongs in the Canon?

“How do you know that the Book of Esther is the inspired Word of God and belongs in the canon of Scripture?” (HT)

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Canon vs. Scripture

Damian crafts and argument, then writes

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Canon within a Canon (Meme, anyone?)

Last week, John Anderson wrote about his canon within a canon. He writes,
Brevard Childs has argued that the process of canonization allowed for a certain ‘leveling,’ a general equality as it concerns the various books of the Bible. Obadiah is just as authoritative as the gospel of Matthew, and Genesis just as seminal as Philemon. […]

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Friday’s Favorite Posts

Today is Friday, and I do not have much work to do, so I thought I would share some reading material with you all.

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