second century and subsequently included in a fixed collection of the church’s sacred Scriptures. Some Christians initially accepted the sacred status of several religious texts, but later excluded them from their Scripture collections (1 Enoch, Eldad and Modad, the Epistle of Barnabas, The Shepherd of Hermas, 1 Clement, and the Letters of Ignatius). While there was initial agreement on the inclusion of many of the books that were included in the Bible such as the Law or Pentateuch and the Prophets