When Was The Canon Established?

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Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

Was the canon established before 70 AD by the apostles, since the destruction of Jerusalem is not mentioned in the scriptures, or was the canon established by the later roman councils such as Nicea in 325 AD? Can you provide any evidence or support for your position?

"the Canon" is a subjective term here. What do you mean? Do you mean when did man collect them into one book or do you mean when was the word finished?

God inspired the men, apostles, prophets,scribes to speak and to record. Nobody knows when the last letter was written but probably around 80 AD, since the Apostles were getting pretty old and dying off.

The bible is not a History so there is no reason for it to mention Jerusalem. The books of the bible were not written all in the same time frame or in the same location. So someone writting it in 70 AD over in some far corner of the world, might have also written what they wrote before hearing of Jerusalems fall.

A Canon is merely a collection of books that were already written and in use. So church leaders collected those books already written and in use. They examined them. They saw if there were any internal and external contradictions that would lead them to believe the letters were either spurious or contained interpolations. If they did they rejected them as Canon.

Canon's or Lists of books had been around since before 325 AD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblica...ristian_canons