From our series "Battle to Discredit the Bible" this clip answers the question: How did the early Christians pick out which books would go into the New Testament canon?
"it was actually the apostle John who had the commission from Christ to finalize and to complete the full canon of the New Testament. This is one of the main reasons that Christ gave to John the promise that he would live beyond the martyrdom of Peter, even to remain alive until I come, or as Christ expressed it in the Greek, until I am coming (John 21:2223). All of this has to do with the canonization of the New Testament, as we will soon see."
Ran across the following site and thought I'd share:
EarlyChristianWritings (dot) com
Oallos1 9 months ago
"it was actually the apostle John who had the commission from Christ to finalize and to complete the full canon of the New Testament. This is one of the main reasons that Christ gave to John the promise that he would live beyond the martyrdom of Peter, even to remain alive until I come, or as Christ expressed it in the Greek, until I am coming (John 21:2223). All of this has to do with the canonization of the New Testament, as we will soon see."
askelm . com/restoring/res025.htm
AllOtherNamesUsed 1 year ago