Books that didn't make the Canon

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I’ve seen it around, but I can’t find it now … does anybody have this list?
 
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LaSalle:
I’ve seen it around, but I can’t find it now … does anybody have this list?
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This might be what you are looking for Early Church Writings
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Your library is full of books that didn’t make the canon. I am not trying to be sarcastic or snide, but the list is endless. You may want to check out the canons of other Churches, especially those that split off in 451 and other Churches in the east. If anyone has a list of the canons for these Churches and can post them I would appreciate it.Thanks
 
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Your library is full of books that didn’t make the canon. I am not trying to be sarcastic or snide, but the list is endless. You may want to check out the canons of other Churches, especially those that split off in 451 and other Churches in the east. If anyone has a list of the canons for these Churches and can post them I would appreciate it.Thanks
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… and your point would be …?
 
Some people in the early church considered Barnabas Scripture, God knows why. Barnabas is an odd book, to say the least. It is fairly anti-Semetic, claiming that the Jews lost their covenant relationship with God when they worshipped the golden calf, and that God intended the Kosher dietary laws to be interpreted metaphorically i.e. as teaching what kind of people to avoid and it was a testament to Jewish perfidy that they interpreted Kosher literally. Also quite amusing, Barnabas tries to do Bible code with a translation of the Old Testament! I myself am quite glad it never made it into the canon of Scripture.
 
Plus it is understood that it was not written by the apostle Barnabas but by a church father of perhaps the same name ater the apostles had died.
 
Any book not in the canon of scripture is by definition a “book that didn’t make the canon.” There were (and are) some pretty weird books and writings floating around; many of them didn’t rate a first, let alone a second, look. The one’s that did make the canon, I believe, did so because they met the standards of apostolicity, orthodoxy, and liturgical use. These were writings that had been used in the liturgy from the beginning, and contained orthodox teaching that had been received from the apostles.

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The Other Gospels, by Ron Cameron, Westminster Press, 1982 lists non-canonical gospel texts, with critical notes and annotated bibliography. 5 Traditions of the sayings of Jesus: Gospel of Thomas, Dialog of the Savior, Gospel of the Egyptians, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 840, Apocryphon of James. 11 Traditions of Stories of Jesus. Too many to list, but inclue Protoevangelium of James, Gospel of Peter and Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which are those most often quoted.
 
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