Who was the first person to list the 27 books of the New Testament in the biblical canon? And how did the early Christians know which books were inspired and which weren't? Pastor Adriel Sanchez answers these questions and more about how we got our bibles.
0:00 Was there a biblical canon before the 4th Century?
0:53 Two theories for how we got the Canon of Scripture
1:41 Did orthodox Christians and Constantine unfairly rule out books like the Gospel of Thomas from the canon?
3:43 The differences between the canonical Gospels and gnostic texts
4:32 Did "sacred tradition" decide the canon?
6:10 The theory of canonical criteria
8:12 The authority of Scripture
9:45 Scripture is self-authenticating
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