Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

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take you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian. Welcome back to the

Verity podcast friends. I'm delighted that you're here and that we get to talk about the New Testament.

We have spent the last three episodes in the Old Testament and now we get to move on to the canonization of the Gospels.

Now you guys like all the other episodes, there's so much information I wish I could share with

you that I have to distill down into less than 30 minutes and so this is a

super high-level view of how the Gospels came to be canonized in some of our

questions about that process. But I am going to leave some of this information for when we do

some episodes on errors in the Bible, as well as another episode on the apocrypha and the Gnostic Gospels and why those aren't included in the standard Protestant Bible.

So we will have whole episodes on those topics. Don't fear if you're like, wait, I wanted more information

about that.

I am planning on doing specific episodes

on those topics as well.

So the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

We're all familiar with these as the primary accounts

that we know who Jesus is through.

These tell us how he lived, how he died, the miracles he worked. Everything

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