Jesus spoke on behalf of God.įor scripture in the New Testament to be viewed as canonical its mains influences had to come from either Jesus, the apostles, or the disciples. The earliest canon that the church had was Jesus himself. Thanks to the Holy Spirit God could divinely inspire the New Testament. The New Testament mainly derives of the workings of God, Christ, and the apostles. The New Testament is full of Christ centered documents. First and foremost there was the rise of the New Testament writings to the status of scripture, and then there was a conscious effort of groupings of the literature into a closed collection, and finally the formation of a closed canonical list of authoritative text that would be use by the church to teach wide spread Christianity. The only problem with the canon is which collection of these sacred texts is correct and who gets to decide what is correct? The New Testament was divided into three different stages. “A basic prerequisite for canonicity was conformity to what was called the rule of faith that is, the congruity of a given document with the basic human tradition recognized as normative by the Church. The canon’s main purpose was to centralize Christian teaching and worship behind one flagstaff collection of books. However the question is how and why were these twenty-seven books chosen and the others thrown out? The canon in the biblical sense is a collection of writings and scriptures that were divinely inspired by God for men. These books were recognized as the true teachings of Christianity. The New Testament canon consists of twenty sevens books which were at one point agreed upon by a collective group.
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