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How did we get the Bible?

How did the authors of the Bible get the words that they wrote?

How do we know that they are really God’s words spoken to us for millennia?

Those are the questions I want to address in this 3-part video series that I pray will help to build faith in your heart about the authenticity and the inerrancy of the Bible.

How Do We Know The Bible Is God’s Word Part 1?

“For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.` For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” 2 Peter 1:16-21

• The Word of God that we have is
  • Given to us by God
  • Not by human will or interpretation
  • Men wrote, being enabled by the Holy Spirit
• Scripture is not man-made
  • Men published the Bible
  • Men wrote the script of the Bible
  • Simply served as editors, writing what God said

God has given us His Word, and it should be the guide and pattern for our lives.

 

Is Jesus Christ the Son of God and the Savior that the Holy Scriptures talk about?

Is our faith and salvation that of the Holy Scriptures, or that of a different faith recorded in a different set of gospels?

Is the church of Jesus Christ the church of the Holy Scriptures, or is it the church of the Sacred Feminine, as Gnosticism and modern-day Christianity rewritten want us to believe?

How Do We Know The Bible Is God’s Word Part 2?

We must answer four significant questions

• Were there really more than 80 gospels written and considered for the Holy Cannon?
• What are the Gnostic gospels?
  • Are they really older than the Holy Scriptures?
  • Do they contain the true gospel of Jesus Christ?
• How did we get our current Cannon – the Holy Bible that we have today?
  • Is it reliable?
• Was the Emperor Constantine behind its selection

God commanded men to write His Word

“So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, ‘All the words which the Lord has said we will do.’ And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.” Exodus 24:3-4 (Emphasis mine)

• Other places where it mentions that God had men write His Words
  • Deuteronomy 31:9-11, 24-26
  • Joshua 24:26-27
  • 1 Samuel 10:25
  • Mark 12:35-36
  • Jeremiah 36:2
  • 1 Corinthians 7:10
  • 1 Corinthians 14:37
  • 2 Peter 3:14-16
  • 1 John 1:1-3
  • Revelation 1:1-3, 17-20
  • 2 Peter 1:16-18
• Men wrote the thoughts and mind of God
  • They didn’t write from their own minds
  • They didn’t write their own thoughts
  • They were not just writing about historical events

The 66 books that make up what we know as The Holy Bible is called Cannon – which means measuring.

It’s like a ruler.

These 66 books have been measured, evaluated, and have been found to be the accurate word of God; and are the measure of what someone says is from God.

If someone claims to have a teaching from the Word of God, a prophetic word, or a message in tongues with an accompanying interpretation, you measure it by the Canon.

How Do We Know The Bible Is God’s Word Part 3

• The Old Testament was the first to be established as Canon
  • Around 450-500 B.C., the Old Testament Canon was established
  • Daniel referred to the book of Jeremiah as Scripture and was studying it.
• The New Testament was completely written by 90 A.D.
  • 55-60 years after Jesus was crucified
  • The New Testament affirms it is Scripture
    • 1 Timothy 5:18 quotes Luke 10:7
    • Paul calls the book of Luke Scripture

“For the Scripture says…’The laborer is worthy of his wages.’ 1 Timothy 5:18 (Emphasis mine)

• • By 175 A.D., the entire Canon was basically established
• Gnostic writers’ claims are a complete fabrication and a historical rewrite
  • Constantine forced the Council of Nicaea to accept the 27 books of the New Testament
  • That he forced them to reject other Gnostic writings
  • By 175 A.D., Cannon had already been established
• Cannon was fully recognized at the Council of Carthage with these 6 criteria
  • Is the writing done by a recognized prophet or apostle?
  • Is the writing done by someone closely associated with a recognized prophet of apostle?
  • Can you read this writing, and is there a good quality of truthfulness?
    • Does this writing declare what we already know to be true through other canonical writings?
  • Is this writing faithful to the rest of the Canon?
  • Is what is written in this document confirmed by Jesus Christ or the original apostles?
  • Is this writing used and recognized consistently in the churches as sacred writing?