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 ...
They deciphered the fragment and identified it as a passage from the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a work that is apocryphal — or ...
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 ...
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 Hebrew Bible, also called the Tanakh, is Judaism’s foundational text. “Tanakh” is an acronym for the three major sections ...
The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range ...
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 ...
"You … must be perfect," Jesus insisted, "as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mt 5:48). Without such perfect holiness, ...
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 ...
King’s resurrection of Jennens’s crucial role, laboring in private over a libretto that he hoped would inspire “the ...
Fans of her "gritty canon" may hate the film, "because it lives in that tricky place where social and magical realism collide ...