Ok so yes, this is late. But it is still important. If you haven’t heard, John MacArthur released a new book and he did so with gusto, including a conference advertised by this video: Now, I can’t tell you everything that is going on in that video. There’s a whole thing with what appears to…
Category: Answering questions
Summary of the series: Where did our Bible come from? (part 13)
This is a summary of the posts in this series in an effort to both give a sense of cohesion to it and to provide a reference point for those who may have missed one or two (or more) in the series, but wanted to keep up. I’ve provided links to each of the posts…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 12: The bible in English
Sorry it’s been a while since the last post in this series (or generally). I’m coming to the close of this series though, just this post and one more to sum it up. It’s my hope that by the end of it, you’ll not only have gained an understanding of how we got from a…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 11: Inspiration of Scripture
This is part of a series. Click here for parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, especially because it has been a while and you might like a review. So when I left off the series I had given five of the six major criteria the early church had for…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 10: the next three criteria
This post is part of a series, click back to the home page to review any part of it you may have missed. Last time I talked about two (of six) criteria that were used, though likely not consciously, by the early church to determine which books, letters, and other writings would be considered part…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 9: The first two Criteria for Canonicity
This post is part of a series. To catch up you clan click to read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 As I’ve already mentioned, following the Diatesseron (which wasn’t itself really a controversy), there no real major controversies surrounding the acceptance what we now take to be the bible. While…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 8: The Diatessaron
Ok, I’ve been bad, really bad, about keeping up with blog posting. That’s not to say I haven’t been busy. Unfortunately, I’ve been busy writing the sort of stuff that probably wouldn’t work to well in a blog post (I doubt anyone (or more than a handful of people) wants to read a 25,000 word…
Where did our Bible Come from? Part 7: Marcion
This is part of a series. You can go back and read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 if you feel like you’ve missed something. Emerging from Conflict Last time I established the window during which the New Testament went from non-existence to formal acknowledgement of the 27 books we know as the…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 6: The window for the development of the New Testament
If you’re just joining this series, I’m currently giving a rather lengthy answer to the question of how we ended up with the books that we consider the bible. Feel free to go to the home page and click back on the previous posts which introduce this concept, state why we don’t accept various other…
Where did our Bible come from? Part 5: Settling on the Old Testament Canon
This is part 5 of a series on the history of the biblical canon. Feel free to read parts 1, 2, 3, or 4 first. Last time, I essentially argued that the canon of the Old Testament was not really established, as it used to be supposed, by the Jewish council of Jamnia. Instead, I…
