Question: What does the ‘Canon of Scripture’ mean?
Answer:
The Greek word kanon means a rule or measuring rod.
Canon first means the collection of books for which prescribed tests have been applied to determine whether they are considered authoritative and worthy of being part of the sacred Scriptures.
Canon also means all the books collectively. The Canon is thus all the Scriptures that constitute the ‘rule of faith’ by which all doctrine is tested.
