The New Testament Not God's True Word? Part 1 (TMF:771)

Monday, November 06, 2017
Peace to Live By: The New Testament Not God's True Word? Part 1 (TMF:771) - Daniel Litton
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       Contention Three: The New Testament was compiled by the decisions of humans and consequently the collection of books may not be God’s true Word. As Christians, we believe that God the Holy Spirit inspired the Words of the Bible, that he guided along the hands of men to write both the Old and New Testaments, as I have previously discussed. The Apostle Peter has told us, “knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:20, 21, ESV). So, God definitely guided the writing of the books in the Bible. Now, if God guided the writing of the words on each page, don’t you think that he could have, and would have, guided the different councils in selecting the appropriate books for the New Testament? I mean, after all, this issue takes faith that God is able to control his own Word, and the compiling of it—the gathering together of it—as one Book.