Rylands Papyrus
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Rylands Papyrus. John 18:31-33. The oldest New Testament piece we have. It dates to the 130s or 140s. If the scrap is that early, the original was written before it.
A quote cannot come before the book. Barnabas, about 70 to 79, quotes Matthew and Mark. The Didache quotes Matthew. Polycarp, Clement, Ignatius, Hermas. Every New Testament book is cited in a source earlier than the oldest Gnostic material. Every one. No exception.
The Da Vinci Code line: more than eighty gospels were considered, and only a few were chosen. That is not true. Nicaea did not meet to decide the canon.
There was an early consensus. The four were already there before the others were written.
Full lecture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkrqSLLe294
— Fallen Exposure