{"id":49577,"date":"2025-06-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=49577"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:09:50","slug":"jesus-and-the-biblical-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/recursos\/jesus-y-el-canon-biblico\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and the biblical canon"},"content":{"rendered":"

By \"biblical canon\" is meant the books recognized as sacred texts by the Church. The term derives from the Greek \u03ba\u03b1\u03bd\u03ce\u03bd (\"kanon\", \"reed\" or \"straight stick\") and indicated first a unit of measurement, then, by extension, came to define an official catalog, a model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do these books exist in the Church's New Testament canon?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Already in the second century A.D., especially in response to Marcion, who wanted to exclude from the Christian canon the Old Testament and all those parts of the Old Testament and all those parts of the Old Testament that were not in the Christian canon. New <\/a>that were not in line with his teachings (for him, the God of the Christians was not to be identified with that of the Jews), Justin (140) and Irenaeus of Lyons (180), followed later by Origen, reaffirmed that the canonical Gospels, universally accepted by all the Churches, should be four. This was confirmed in the Muratorian Canon (an ancient list of the books of the New Testament, dating from around 170).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Precise criteria were followed to establish the \"canonicity\" of the four Gospels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n