WHAT WOULD YOU SAY: Who Really Chose the Books of the Bible?
A lot of folks over the years have been told by academics, media figures and other voices in the popular culture that the Bible is not really the inspired Word of God because its books were selectively, culled, edited and picked hundreds of years after the various books were written.
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In the process, goes the critique, books like Judas and The Gospel of Thomas that pushed ideas and doctrines that weren’t approved by the church establishment were ignored. The result is that the Bible we know today represents a highly biased selection of the many books that could have been included.
Like so many other contemporary critiques, however, this one is long on conjecture and all-but-empty of facts, as Professor Steven Sanchez makes clear in the following video from the Colson Center’s great “What Would You Say” series:
Sources and Further Reading:
“In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture” edited by Steven B. Cowan and Terry L. Wilder.
“Journey from Texts to Translations: The Origin and Development of the Bible” by Paul D. Wegner.
“Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism” edited by Peter J. Gurry and Elijah Hixson
“Can We Trust the Gospels?” by Peter J. Williams