The 100-Foot Beast an Early Christian Saw in Visions (Shepherd of Hermas)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Early Church Reception and Canon Debates
Jimmy surveys church fathers who called it scripture and the Muratorian caution against public reading.
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Transcript
Early Christians read it in church beside the Gospels; a fourth-century Bible bound it in after Revelation. Then it vanished. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli open the Shepherd of Hermas — a tower, a beast, and a question about forgiveness.
