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THE GOSPEL TRUTH canon at work. This included the four Gospels. Garlow and Jones say this of the four canonical Gospels: A Greek manuscript known as P45 and dated around A.D. 200, has all four Gospels together. The Magdelen College Greek Fragments of Matthew’s Gospel is an early book that contains only the four biblical Gospels. One scholar argues that this collection comes from the first half of the second century. Another, basing his arguments on ancient writing forms, dates it as early as the first century. Whatever the case, some solid recent scholarship pushes the four Gospels much further back than what many had previously believed. 112 The first complete canonical list of the 27 books of the New Testament appeared in 367 A.D. in the Festal letter of Athanasius of Alexandria. At that time, there was no correct order for the arrangement of the New Testament books. The order we have today was borrowed from the Latin Vulgate, the official publication of the Roman Catholic Church. The late Dr. F. F. Bruce, a first-rate New Testament scholar and author of the book, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?, underscored the point that the canon was more discovered to be divine than merely decreed as such: One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were 103
THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirectly. The first ecclesiastical councils to classify the canonical books were both held in North Africa—at Hippo Regius in 393 and at Carthage in 397—but what these councils did was not to impose something new upon the Christian communities but to codify what was already the general practice of these communities. 113 This is reminiscent of the doctrine of the Trinity. Christian worship and belief from the beginning was in the triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Although the word “trinity” is not in the Bible, it was part of the theology of the early Christians from the start of the Church. Not until the 4th century were the theological specifics nailed down. Again, belief in the Trinity was present from the start of the Church. HAS THE BIBLE CHANGED? Dan Brown says of the Bible, “…it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.” 114 I use on a regular basis The Greek New Testament. Again, 96-97 percent of the text is not even in question. The other 3-4 percent has minor variations, nothing impacting any major doctrines in the least. Meanwhile, the var- 104
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