Even so, I pointed out that some New Testament books, notably James, Hebrews, and Revelation, were more slowly accepted into the canon than others. “Should we therefore be suspicious of them?” I asked. “To my mind, that just shows how careful the early church was,” he replied. “They weren’t ‘gung ho,’ sweeping in every last document that happened to have anything about Jesus in it. This shows deliberation and careful analysis.
