straykat
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Marcion is an interesting fellow, this heretic wrote the earliest recorded list of N.T letters. Please do not assume that a canon of N.T letters was only available once Marcion mentioned them in 144 AD. It is obvious that these N.T letters were widely circulated before Marcion even mentioned the list of letters.
After all, Paul's letters were no doubt being copied and circulated. Paul even mentions passing his letters onto other churches.
There can be no doubt whatsoever, that Luke's Gospel and Paul's letters were well circulated, even at the end of the first century.
It's not an assumption. It's history as far as we can tell. I doubt it's going to change much or some new revelation will change the history. There are zero records or even indirect quotes of the Church making any effort at this until he came out. And even then, they differed, once they started doing it. Many didn't know what to make of Revelation, for example. While to this day, they never made any "official" statement about the Old Testament (other than the Catholics at the Council of Trent). It's why Ethiopian and Greek and Slavic bibles differ a bit.
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