Discussing the Canonization of Scripture (TMF:337)

Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Peace to Live By: Discussing the Canonization of Scripture (TMF:337) - Daniel Litton
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       Now I want to discuss the canonization of Scripture. In understanding the canonicity of the Bible, there are certain things one needs the know. For starters, each book from the Bible is self authenticating. In other words, each book stands by itself as Scripture whether or not it is approved of by mankind. I will quote again 2 Timothy 3:16-17, which states, "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work" (ESV). Councils would eventually put together in the Bible in the first 400 years after the birth of Christ, but all the books were inspired by the Holy Spirit from the point in which they were written. And it wasn't that the councils actually made a book become inspired. Obviously, because the Bible had not been put together, at least the New Testament, at the time of the early church (where Peter was head), it was necessary for groups of people to come together and decide which books should be part of the Canon.