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The history of the Bible

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The Origins of the New Testament

Dan Brown theory that there was a conspiracy to suppress various works. In fact, the contents of the New Testament were getting fixed early in the second century. But nobody ruled on it. Nobody wrote documents or official letters saying these are the books  of the New Testament. And what happens in the fourth century is you get characters like Eusebius and Athanasius who actually write documents about them.

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