Are There Missing Books of the Bible?

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ChumbaCasino .com Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Are there missing books to the

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Bible? You'll often hear this argued that there's books of the Bible that have been left out, they're missing.

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Books like the Gospel of Thomas or maybe things like the

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Gospel of Judas or the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. There's all kinds of books that people claim should have been in the

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Bible and they were left out. Well, the reason they were left out is not because they're missing or actually even that they're left out.

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They're left out because they were never scripture. There's actually four letters that Paul wrote to Corinthians.

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We know that because in 1st and 2nd Corinthians, he refers to these other letters. And we don't have those as scripture either.

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So not everything that Paul wrote was scripture. Not everything about Jesus was scripture. But we recognize that in the first century, they knew.

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Peter recognized what Paul wrote as scripture. So they knew what was scripture. There was a canon, a measurement of what is scripture.

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That was basically, it had to be accepted at the time of its writing. It had to be copied and seen as scripture, had to be consistent.

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So these missing books aren't consistent. They have errors in them. And there's not many copies.

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They weren't seen as being scripture. They weren't used as scripture. So they're not missing. And that is the misnomer.

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When people say missing books of the Bible or lost books of the Bible, that word itself makes you think that they're missing when there's no evidence that they were ever part of the canon.

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They're not missing because they were never part of it. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry.

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