Husband, Father, Reformed Presbyterian Pastor. Lifelong student of Theology and Philosophy. I’m the guy that did the UFO podcast for Cultish (posted 👇)
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Correct. No ecumenical council ever issued a binding decree locking the canon. It formed by gradual consensus through widespread church usage. Athanasius’s 367 list first matches the full 27 NT books; Hippo and Carthage later affirmed it regionally. Laodicea’s disputed Canon 60 omitted Revelation, showing ongoing Eastern caution. The Nicaea “vote” story is pure myth, popularized by The Da Vinci Code.
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So the moral of the story is that Nicaea did not “decide the Canon of Scripture.”
Laodicea was a regional council lacking ecumenical authority. The list given at Laodicea is just that, a list, and it’s not even the final list that the entire church agreed upon (Revelation was missing from their list).
The canon of Scripture was agreed upon by common consent. There simply was no ecumenical council that said “these are the books of Scripture and these are not, use the correct ones or else!”
Unfortunately the Da Vinci Code one shotted a lot of people on this issue.
RT @Rural_KS_Pastor: About 22 years ago, when I was first finding my way into Reformed theology, I encountered @RScottClark . He was gracio…
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Peptides and AI medicine will ruin the whole idea of health and longevity as status symbols because anyone will be able to achieve a great physique and good biomarkers for relatively cheap.
You cannot build real status on something that anyone can buy in a bottle. Status requires scarcity and hard work. What costs Bryan Johnson two million dollars a year and a team of doctors today will soon be a cheap prescription for anyone who wants it. It’s basically already here just not evenly distributed yet.
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Scripture-focused worship requires habits of concentration and memory that aren’t easily acquired.