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What Is The Apocrypha, or Deuterocanonical Books?

March 5, 2015 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

Which books should be in the Bible? Why are some of the books called canonical, and others are called Apocrypha, or Deuterocanonical?

“Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms”—Luke 24:44 NIV

Jesus referred to the Hebrew scripture Bible canon, by referring to the three sections that the Jews divided it into. These sections comprise the 39 book Old Testament, from Genesis through Malachi.

As the early church developed, Gentile believers needed to be taught “sound doctrine” (Titus 2:1). Although Jesus, Paul and the apostles exclusively used the Old Testament (referred to in Luke 24:44) as their canonical Bible, Gentiles also encountered many other Jewish religious texts among the Greek scrolls of the Scriptures. Over time some Gentile believers began to embrace these books as authoritative, and debate over their place in the churches has raged ever since. read more

Should Pseudepigrapha (Books By Fake Authors) Be In the Bible?

February 23, 2015 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

Is the Bible reliable? — Should Pseudepigrapha books be in the Bible?

Increasingly claims are being made that many worthy books were omitted from the Bible, and thus raising doubts in people’s minds that “the Scriptures” of the Bible are “the word of God” (John 10:35 NLT). Pseudepigrapha, meaning “false title,” or books by fake authors, refers to Jewish books that falsely claimed to have been written by Moses, Enoch, Abraham or some other ancient hero of the faith, and are supposedly arbitrarily omitted from the Bible

Most pseudepigrapha, or books by fake authors, were written between 250 BCE and 200 CE. The Pseudepigrapha books compared with what is genuinely “all Scripture . . . by God” (2 Timothy 3:16 LSB) solves this puzzle. A few examples are as follows: read more

The New Testament Canon

February 18, 2015 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

The process of determining which texts would comprise the Biblical canon (the standard of authoritative and normative teaching for the church) took place over several centuries. Beginning in the first century A.D., Christian communities recognized the authority of texts that they gathered into collections for circulation and use in public worship. Second Peter already suggests a familiarity with multiple letters of Paul and goes so far as to place them on par with the Hebrew Scriptures (3:16). Evidence reveals that during public worship Christians in the earliest centuries read from the texts that would become the New Testament, just as they did from the Hebrew Scriptures. read more

Is the Gospel of John Historical and True?

February 18, 2015 BibleAuthenticity Comments 4 comments

Jesus' Temple Cleansing — Is the Gospel of John historical and true? For example, does the temple cleansing in John contradict the Synoptic Gospels?

The question of whether the gospel of John is historical and true has been raised for quite some time now. Some even consider most of the 4th gospel to be fiction.

“Since the 19th century, scholars have almost unanimously accepted that the Johannine discourses are less likely to be historical than the synoptic parables and were likely written for theological purposes”—Wikipedia

There are obvious and striking differences between the Gospel of John and the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke). These include: read more

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