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Correct. No ecumenical council ever issued a binding decree locking the canon. It formed by gradual consensus through widespread church usage. Athanasius’s 367 list first matches the full 27 NT books; Hippo and Carthage later affirmed it regionally. Laodicea’s disputed Canon 60 omitted Revelation, showing ongoing Eastern caution. The Nicaea “vote” story is pure myth, popularized by The Da Vinci Code.
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So the moral of the story is that Nicaea did not “decide the Canon of Scripture.”
Laodicea was a regional council lacking ecumenical authority. The list given at Laodicea is just that, a list, and it’s not even the final list that the entire church agreed upon (Revelation was missing from their list).
The canon of Scripture was agreed upon by common consent. There simply was no ecumenical council that said “these are the books of Scripture and these are not, use the correct ones or else!”
Unfortunately the Da Vinci Code one shotted a lot of people on this issue.
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