How You Know the Bible Is God’s Word – Part 1
3/2/2016
GCSP2016-07
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Transcript
How Do We Know This Is God’s Word? How We Got The Bible?Introductory Remarks:
Overview/Outline: Four Main Links to the Revelatory Process:
Inspiration
Canonization
Transmission
Translation
Biblical Inspiration:
Divine Causality
Prophetic Agency
Written Authority
Three Views of Inspiration:
Orthodox View: The Bible _______ the Word of God
Modernist View: The Bible ___________ the Word of God
NeoOrthodoxy View: The Bible ___________ the Word of God
What else does the Bible teach about inspiration?
Verbal
Plenary
Authoritative
Innerrant
Equality of Testaments
Claims for Inspiration of the Old Testament
New Testament Support for Old Testament claims of Inspiration
New Testament References to Specific Old Testament Sections
New Testament references to Specific books of OT
OT Events and People cited by the NT
Claims for Inspiration within New Testament
Prophetic/Apostolic Agency ?The Promise of Christ claimed by the Apostles
The Comparison of the New Testament to the OT
Direct Claims for Inspiration in the New Testament books
The Evidences for the Inspiration of the Bible
Internal
External
Archeology
Historicity
Fossils
Prophecy
Bible’s Influence on culture
Bible’s Endurance
The Canon: Determining and Discovering the GodInspired Books
Original meaning of Canon:
Theological use of term:
Additional Comments about Inspiration and Canonization
Principles for Evaluating Canonicity:
Authority
Prophetic Agency
Authentic
Dynamic
Reception
The Extent of the OT Canon
Pseudepigrapha
Antilegomena
Apocrypha
Reasons for ?Accepting ?OT Apocrypha
Reasons for ?Rejecting? OT Apocrypha
Development of the New Testament Canon
What books qualified for Prophetic Agency/Apostolic Mandate?
Defining Issues: Persecution and Heresy
Selecting Process:
?Primary Sources, Early Church Fathers, Early Translations
Primary Sources: ? First Century Church Apostolic writings ( First Century)
Accurate Narrative
Public Reading
Circulate these Writings
Evidence of Early Acceptance/Canon
False Teachings
Early Church Fathers (100 to 400 AD)
Lengthy List: Ignatius Polycarp Ireneus Papias Justin Martyr Clement of Alexandria
Terrtullian Hippolytus Origen Cyril of Jerusalem
Summary of Findings:
Apostolic Office
Authoritative Message
Existing Apostolic Writings
Early Date for NT
Early Translations
Summary of “Selection Process”
Reason to Not Accept NT Apocrypha
Concluding Remarks on Inspiration and Canonization