Bibliology

I've grown up in the Church my whole life and an interesting topic came up today that I never knew about. The idea that all the gospels were all taken from a Q and elaborated on to make the Gospels what we know today. Ive never even have heard of this idea of a Q before today and I found the idea very interesting. I don't believe that the Gospels are taken from a Q but it was eye opening that there are people that do believe this very thing. I have never seen the Da Vinci Code but apparently that movie and book are about this very idea that there is a Q and the Gospels are all elaborate interpretations on the Q.

Another topic I found very interesting was the idea of over 80 gospels found that are not in the Bible that we all know today. I knew there has been other gospels that have been discovered that are not in the Bible today but I never new the number was so high before. I just thought it was very interesting of the amount of people in the first couple of centuries after Christ that wrote about Him.

The last interesting point of the day was the chart of the New Testament canon during the first four centuries. It was amazing how all the books that are included in the new testament as we know today were quoted on a regular basis by these historic early church teachers. The last five on the list have quoted each and every book in the New Testament which means that the New Testament was settled upon before the Roman Emperor Constantine. This chart was very interesting and though provoking for sure.