Christianity--Church History/Bible orgin

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Expert: - 11/21/2005


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Dear Dean thanks for taking my question

Did Constantine ask for the creation of the new testament and then the Catholic Church did all the work.(with Holy Spirit of course)

Or did the Catholic Church decided and do the work on there own.
thanks
Jeff

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I can't find anything that would include Constantine in the setting of the canon of the Bible.

The canonization of the books was a long process which seems to have begun about 170A.D.The canon became more or less fixed between 367 and 405A.D.   

But even here, there were parts of Christendom which had not recieved of accepted all and only the books which are now in the canon.  The RCC still has the Apocrypha in their Bibles and hold it as part of the canon.  

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Dean Gade

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I have knowledge of various writings of: the Ante-Nicene and Post-Nicene fathers. The history of the Bible`s origin. The original language of the New Testament. The history of the Old Testament and the changes in the church in the New Testament.

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I am a college and seminary graduate( BA., BTh. MDiv.)who studied the history of Christianity during the eight years of study in those institutions as well as study in order to teach and write courses on church history.

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