Comparing The Bible And Douglas Stuart's The Bibl

The Canon is sixty-six books of scripture or texts divided into two books, the Old

Testament, and the New Testament, which were put into one book, the world’s number one bestseller, which is known as The Bible. The word Canon comes from the Greek, and means “rule” or “measuring stick.” It wasn’t until 367 AD that Athanasius provided the first complete listing of the sixty-six of the canon; Athanasius was the church father.

Athanasius discerned the sixty-six books from all of the other books that were written were to be the only ones that should be universally accepted. The formation of the Canon did not all come at once but was a product of centuries of reflection and discernment through the Holy Spirit. In Gordon D. Fee’s and Douglas Stuart’s book, How to read The

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Bible is Gods message, and has relevance that lasts forever; it is for all people in every age and culture. God chose to speak His words through humans in history; every book in

The Bible is specific to the time in history to which it was written. Each book is different with its language, time, and culture, which the text was originally written in.

Barksdale 2 The Old Testament and its thirty-nine books were officially brought together in a single form in about 200 BC. The first five books (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) were the first to be established as canonical; these books are also sometimes called the Torah, or the Pentateuch. The first five books probably first occurred during the fifth century before Christ, but scholars are not exactly sure when they became official. The Jewish people right before the birth of Christ were brought together by this one book, (The Old Testament) because there were so many books at the time that were claiming divine authority, the canon became a book that united