Bible Authenticity

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