It's hard to say.... We do have a document called the Muratorian Canon ... which tells us that one of the criteria for deciding whether a book is scripture or not is whether it can be read in the ...
As an example, John Ankerberg and John Weldon in their book, The Facts on Roman Catholicism, write: Catholicism teaches that Scripture involves more than the canon accepted by the Jews ...
They deciphered the fragment and identified it as a passage from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a work that is apocryphal — or ...
The Church is needed to accurately pass on Apostolic Tradition (Romans 10:17), define the canon of the Bible (i.e. list the inspired Books), safeguard the accurate transmission (e.g. translations ...
On Dec. 6th, Netflix invites audiences on a compelling journey back to ancient Judea to witness the story of the Nativity ...
The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range ...
"You … must be perfect," Jesus insisted, "as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mt 5:48). Without such perfect holiness, ...
For example, is a strong biblical argument one that marshals discrete proof texts that mention the subject matter by name? Is it one that reads the canon as a total narrative whose moral momentum ...
We changed the ordering of the deuterocanonical books—many of which are part of the canon, not apocryphal, for the Orthodox and Catholic communities—to be more in keeping with the Greek Orthodox ...
The Apocrypha comprises those books not accepted as part of the Bible when the Hebrew canon was set, but which survived in the Greek scriptures. Early editions of the English Bible included the ...
King’s resurrection of Jennens’s crucial role, laboring in private over a libretto that he hoped would inspire “the ...
I will not be sober on Election Night.” She paused for a moment, looking thoughtful. “I’m never sober.” A man carrying a ...