'What were the factors that lead to the formation of the New Testament Canon? How valid are they today?'

There is said to be over a thousand years of literature in the Christian Bible as it is today. This essay will look at the New Testament of the Bible, what the factors were that lead to its formation and the validity of those factors. The Bible must be looked at not as a single book, but as a collection of twenty-seven books. These books as we have them today are not originals, they have …

…is an endless task to try and establish whether the early church made the 'right decisions' or not. The Church today consists of firm traditions and doctrines that cannot be altered, but those features are built upon the ideas of the early Church making the factors that lead to the formation of the New Testament canon valid in most respects. Unless the Church was to alter its teaching concerning scripture, they have to be valid.