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00:00Hello dear brothers and sisters. I'm back again to continue delving deeper into this
00:18It is such an important part to know the fundamental principles that can help us
00:26to lead to an in-depth study of the New Testament in this preparatory course that helps us to
00:34Let's now delve into the text of the New Testament. And well, as we have already seen
00:40What we call the New Testament actually refers to a collection of writings or books
00:48which were written at different times by different authors and communities. However
00:54We can say that although they were born independent of each other and are not intended to
01:01that they were together, we said in our previous class, how the authors didn't even think
01:08that this was going to be forever. Well, this collection wasn't meant to be.
01:15At least the authors never thought it would turn out this way, right? God is the one who has brought them together.
01:21From the beginning. The writings that undoubtedly possessed the seal and guarantee of origin
01:30The apostolic ones must have been especially appreciated and venerated from the beginning, and their copies surely
01:39They were sought after by communities with enthusiasm, by local churches, and by Christian figures.
01:45who had money. Wealthy people, a copy of a book would cost in today's money, because
01:54It would cost many, many thousands of pesos. To make a book like Lucas's, you'd probably have to kill.
02:02Half a flock to make us into parchments wrapped in leather, which was all they would last. Who could afford that?
02:10Well, only really rich people or the whole community that came together to be able to have a copy
02:18of this book. They could also have been on papyrus, which was also expensive. Everything cost money back then.
02:26These books, which were purchased with great effort through the communities, were also part of their mission.
02:36They believed that they came from the original authors of those who had had contact with Christ.
02:42Well, those were the ones they preferred most to what are called the logia or sayings of Christ, which
02:49They came from unknown or at least less authoritative sources. Even in the New Testament there are
02:59Evidence of how the canonical books were disseminated. The communities, some apostles would know
03:06They refer to some of the letters of others, and some of their own letters already make reference to them. For example
03:13In the second letter of Peter, in chapter 3, verses 15 to 16, it says the following:
03:19Consider the patience of our Lord as Savior, just as our Lord also wrote to you.
03:28Beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him. Likewise, in all his letters he speaks of
03:37This includes some things that are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist.
03:44as well as twisting the rest of the scriptures to their own destruction.
03:51This implies that his readers are already familiar with some of the epistles of Saint Paul.
03:59For its part, the Gospel of John implicitly presupposes the existence of the Synoptic Gospels.
04:05That is, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. We have no indication in the New Testament of a plan
04:14systematic distribution of the apostolic writings, nor that there is a specific
04:21new canon bequeathed by the apostles to the church or a self-testimony of divine inspiration.
04:28Almost all the writings of the New Testament were evoked on particular occasions or addressed
04:36to specific recipients, as we mentioned in our previous class, but we can boast of
04:43that each of the leading churches, such as Antioch, Thessalonica, Alexandria, Corinth, or Rome
04:53They tried to add to their special treasure all the apostolic writings they had
05:01knowledge through exchanges with other Christian churches for the public reading of
05:07The religious assemblies, that is, Rome, found out that a letter was circulating.
05:12Back in the time of Paul to the Corinthians, we had to see who could copy it, try to get hold of it, and
05:20to add it to their collection. The same with Antioch, and that's how the great churches treated it, obviously
05:26because they had more financial resources to be able to have a complete collection of everything that was
05:32It was being generated within Christian culture, within this process of developing theology and the
05:40spreading what God had for our church. Undoubtedly, in this way the
05:48collections were eventually completed within certain limits, although this required considerable effort
05:56number of years. Counting from the composition to the last book, we can talk about many years.
06:05Right? Many years in which many were collected, much of the bibliography, many of the
06:12writings that appeared within Christian writers. This was before the churches
06:19From early Christianity, so geographically separated, they will come to have the new literature complete
06:27sacred. So it's a process, you collect them, you get books from here and there and that was enough
06:33So, if they brought information and training, there wasn't much discrimination at first, especially not towards everyone.
06:40writings that were developing in this first stage of the church. The books, little by little,
06:46They collected it, and to the generation that followed the apostolic era, it practically continues to be passed down.
06:53In the first century, this new generation edited them and began creating lists of those who...
07:01communities were considered important for the instruction of the people and it is from there, from where
07:08They're going to be this term called inspired. There's going to be a collection of books that are books
07:15Inspired, they're not yet canonical, they're not yet the ones we'll definitely have, but we already know
07:21He considered them a source of inspiration. Over time, this gave them divine characteristics, since
07:28They were considered as writings given by God himself and thus gradually became
07:35The word of God, that is, a message given by God to everyone. This gave them authority to
07:44These were to be used to teach everything related to the Christian faith. In this way, this collection
07:53It began as a collection of inspired books called authoritative, meaning that with them one could
08:01to teach. Through that, we could extract the doctrine that would give strength, would give
08:09It shaped and strengthened Christian communities. This is how the first Christian communities...
08:15They began to believe that this collection of documents was a unified whole, a single volume. He spoke
08:24with divine authority over matters of faith, morality, and the ministry of Jesus Christ. With the
08:32Over time, this collection of writings, which contained the teachings given by God to his people, were
08:40accepting it as the word of Jesus Christ. Thus was born the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and began to
08:50to call it the New Testament or the New Covenant. This obviously made the old scriptures of
08:58Israel received the name among Old Testament Christians. We can see, as we were saying in
09:07In our previous meeting, we discussed many of the things we see in the Bible, such as the chapters,
09:14The verses, etc., are elements that were added later and that give more
09:23meaning what we know today in our scripture. Well, the same is true of the New
09:28Testament. It's not that there was the Old Testament before; it was the only one that existed. When the
09:36The New Testament, Christians will give to the Old Testament, that is, the scripture before.
09:43Jesus will now be the Old Testament. This is how, starting from the New Testament, we understand the
09:52Old Testament. And well, given this, we now ask ourselves, how are these people? They are here.
10:02How are these the ones they're supposed to be? Who selected them? What were the criteria for their selection?
10:12Select them? Was there really a universal consensus on this issue? Was it put to a vote and did they win?
10:20them? On this, let's start by saying that there is no absolute answer, because the evidence we have
10:28What is within our reach is not clear. We will look in our class, in this part of our chapter,
10:36to try to give some of the criteria and elements that served to form the collection of
10:41books that we have today and that we call the Canon of the New Testament.
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