I heard an interesting take on some TV documentary on the other gospels.
Books not chosen to become part of the NT for some reason. In one of
I know you won't necessarily agree with this, but I don't think people
just sat around and flipped coins to decide what books were parts of the
NT canon and what weren't. One thing they did do was see if the early
Church Fathers had quoted them in their writings. I think it was in one
of Josh McDowell's books where he documented that a historian who had
the entire set of early church fathers (the ones from the 1st century)
said that he found the entire NT quoted in there except for something
like 2 or 4 verses.
Now, that's not to say that other books might not be quoted there, but I
think those were the types of criteria they used to assemble the canon,
which was, I believe, pretty much recognized already but just needed
something official to seal it.
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