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GotQuestions Bible questions answered https://www.gotquestions.org/ All rights reserved-Published with permission The term “canon” is used to describe the books that are divinely inspired and therefore belong in the Bible. The difficulty in determining the biblical canon is that the Bible does not give us a list of the books that belong in the Bible. Determining the canon was a process conducted first by Jewish rabbis and scholars and later by early Christians. Ultimately, it was God who decided what books belonged in the biblical canon. A book of Scripture belonged in the canon from the moment God inspired its writing. It was simply a matter of God’s convincing His human followers which books should be included in the Bible. Compared to the New Testament, there was much less controversy over the canon of the Old Testament. Hebrew believers recognized God’s messengers and accepted their writings as inspired of God. While there was undeniably some debate in regards to the Old Testament ...

GotQuestions Preguntas de la Biblia contestadas www.GotQuestions.org/Espanol Todos los derechos reservados-Publicado con permiso According to Catholic theology, the seven deadly sins are seven vices or negative character qualities that, left unchecked, will result in a host of other sins and eventually kill a person’s soul. The seven “deadly” sins are pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and sloth. The list was first delineated by  Pope Gregory the Great  in the sixth century.  Thomas Aquinas  later expounded on the idea. In the fourteenth century, Dante wrote his epic poem  Inferno  in which he pictured Purgatory as having seven terraces corresponding to the seven deadly sins. The seven deadly sins are also called the seven  capital sins  or the seven cardinal sins— cardinal  in this context meaning, “of basic importance” or “extremely grave.” The seven deadly sins are considered to be the most basic sins that plague humanity and the s...