Third Criteria For Selecting Books In The New Testament

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There were two criteria for selecting the books that made it into the New Testament. We can also add a third criteria for the selection of the books and that is the Holy Spirit. It is my belief that the Holy Spirt directed the selection of books chosen for the “canon” of scripture which revealed God’s message. “The Bible is composed of 66 books by 40 different writers over 1,500 years, yet it has one consistent storyline running all the way through, and it has just one ultimate author — God” (Edwards, 2010). The reason I believe the Holy Spirit is the third criteria is because, “Jesus himself affirmed the full authority of the Old Testament as Scripture but made his own words and deeds equally authoritative and promised the apostles that