How We Got the Bible Made Easy by Rose Publishing

Author:Rose Publishing
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781649380128
Publisher: Rose Publishing
Published: 2020-12-11T21:19:42+00:00

Twenty-seven books measured up to the standard of “showing the marks of inspiration.” These were regarded as canonical. Years after a number of early church leaders like Athanasius, Jerome, and Augustine had already listed these books as the New Testament canon, three separate church councils, including the Synod of Carthage in ad 397, also affirmed the books as being God’s inspired word for the church.

It bears repeating: Canonicity isn’t a label that a group of people bestows upon a writing; it is a quality that godly people recognize in a writing. Dr. Timothy Paul Jones explains it this way:

No church council or bishop created the New Testament canon; instead, Christians recognized and received a canon that God created. This canon was breathed out by God as Christ-commissioned eyewitnesses and their close associates authored the books of the New Testament. A unanimous consensus emerged no later than the second century regarding the four Gospels, Acts, the letters of Paul, and at least the first letter from John. By the end of the fourth century, Christians had concluded that twenty-seven texts—the same texts found in your New Testament still today—could be traced back to apostolic eyewitnesses and their associates.9

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