Canon of Scripture
Tuesday, August 29, 2023
2:28 PM
The list of writings which a religious group regards as authoritative. For protestant Christians the canon includes 66 books of the Old(39) and New(27) Testament.
The word Canon comes the Greek (Kanon) and means "measuring rod," "rule," or "list."
2 Timothy 3:16 gives us a framework for what is and isn't scripture.
 -inspired by God (God breathed)
 -useful for teaching, reproof, correction, training in righteousness.
"The first listing of the twenty-seven books of the present New Testament (Greek) canon, however, was made in a festal letter of Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, in 367 CE. Additional centuries would pass before the church settled on the “canon” suggested by Athanasius."
<Heen, Erik, M. "Canon." In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Baker Publishing Group, 2017. Accessed August 29, 2023.>
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DUBIOUSLY - The first “canon” was the Muratorian Canon, which was compiled in AD 170. Marcion rejected all of the Old Testament, and had revised much of the New Testament himself. 
This act helped the Church realize the need for a true and solid canon of scripture. 