What is the Bible?

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See website for details. Daily Edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. What is the

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Bible? When we ask this question, many people get into challenges because they want to say that the

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Bible that we have today was formulated by the Catholic Church in the 300s.

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Well, that's a real problem. Why? Well, for one reason, a really good reason is

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Peter recognized the writings of Paul as scripture.

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So he knew when Paul wrote what he wrote, that was actual scripture.

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We see that in 2 Peter 3 .16, when he calls Paul's writings scripture.

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So he recognized that, but we end up seeing that early in the first and second centuries, they had a recording of the books of both

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Old and New Testament. Now Old Testament, we have in the Council of the Rabbis in Jamnia, where they met in 70

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AD and they decided those books that were always accepted, and by the way, that did not include those apocryphal books that the

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Catholic Church accepts. And by the way, they did not accept those books until the

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Reformation time. That was a reaction to the Reformation. But you saw that there was things that people saw as scripture because they were prophetic authorship, they had witness of the

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Spirit, and they were accepted by the church. That is what's called the canon or measurement.

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