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• The oldest materials that we have for Christianity-- and so what the lecture today is going to be about is how did the particular twenty-seven books that came to be the New Testament canon, how did those get chosen?
• They just thought they were writing a gospel or a sermon or a letter or something like that. So when you see the term "scripture" in the New Testament, every time except, maybe, one time
• By whom--who made the decision? When did they make the decision? And what were the criteria they used? Why did they allow some books in and other books not in?
• The oldest written materials of Christianity are actually the letters of Paul.
• Well, the gospels are actually all written after the letters of Paul were written by 20 or 30 years.

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