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Who Chose the Books of the New Testament?

Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman

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Are the New Testament Books Proto-Orthodox?

The New Testament also was used by groups that were not proto-orthodox. Groups that came to be seen as heretical also use these books. The Old Testament apocrypha are roughly speaking a group of books, number them 12 or 15, depending on how you're counting. Martin Luther and the Protestants rejected Purgatory. And it could be seen as being taught in some of these books.

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