I am asking how we know the Canon is closed and who decided to close it? If God decided, how do we know that? I had thought it was in a meeting held by people who said God don't talk anymore. So how did they know?
  ---Jene Roskvist





Canon & Covenant

Inception And Forward...		     




  Exodus 17 [vs. 14]
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Write this in a book as a memorial, and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven."

   writing | inscribing for remembrance



Exodus 34 [vs. 27-28]
"Write down these words, for in accordance with these [10] words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."

   writing down | record for covenant | opening of canon | Torah



Deuteronomy [6:9; 11:20]
"you shall write them upon the doorposts and on the gates"

   write copy | Torah



Deuteronomy [10:2]
"I will write upon the tablets the words which were on the former tablets that you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark"

   write copy | Torah



Deuteronomy 17 [vs. 18-19]
"And it shall be, when he [the king] sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the levites:"

   write copy | Torah



Deuteronomy 27 [vs. 3, 8]
"and you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly."

   write copy | publication | Torah



Isaiah [8:1; 30:8]


Jeremiah 30 [vs. 2]
Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, saying, "Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book."

   writing down | prophecy



Jeremiah 36 [vs. 2, 28]


Ezekiel 43 [vs. 11]
if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

   writing copy | ordinances and forms



Habakkuk 2 [vs. 2-3]
Then the Lord answered me and said: "Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it."

   writing descriptive | forms and prophecy



Revelation of Jesus Christ 1 [vs. 19]
"write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which are to take place after these things."

   write | record and prophecy



Revelation of Jesus Christ [ch. 2-3]
[letters to the 7 churches]

   written | messages of letter



Revelation of Jesus Christ [14:13; 19:9; 21:5]
[write ...]

   writing down | prophecy




An opening of Covenant & canon begins with Moses/Law. [Exodus 34]

Why no closure of the Moses/Law Covenant and canon.

Why the renewed/new Covenant was not accompanied with the instruction to be written down.

Isaiah 29:13-14   Jeremiah 31:33-34




REF: In My Ears | video
  1. initial efforts to canonize were begun in attempt to answer Marcion's dualistic faith and his "Jefferson Bible" publishing.
  2. motivation for more recent efforts to preserve a (western) canon:
       (#1) to keep accord with traditional theology
       (#2) to mark & group what most seem to be faithful texts
       (#3) to source reasoned affirmation of spiritual things
  3. how disciples & saints may have responded differently (more effectually) to Marcion and his followers.
  4. how disciples & saints today may have responded differently (more effectually) to critical canon practices in faith.







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