How to Love and Study the Bible (Andrew Swafford) | Ep. 197
Pints With Aquinas
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The Need for Authority in the Bible
Canon is tied up with the issue of authority. There's really a need, as Peter craved one of our heroes once joke, you can't get infallible orange juice from a fallible Catholic orange. The Dead Sea Scrolls community clearly had a bigger canon. They seem to have accepted jubilees and first Enoch. So the Jewish canon, everyone, was not closed. It wasn't closed till after Christ. For Martin Luther, so those books were in the canon that it's theological reasons led him to remove them.
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