What influences caused the early church to recognize the canon? One of the biggest concerns or questions within society is: Does God really inspired the Apostles to write the Bible? I personal believe that God really inspired the Apostles and the other characters to write his holy scriptures, but I actually like to provide what the Bible says and not my opinion, which it could be wrong. The word of God explains us in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 that: “Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.” Some in today’s culture states that due to the fact the cannon was written by men, that …show more content…
The Holy Bible explains us in Mathew 5: 17-18 that, “Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.” The Bible does provides the truth that humanity needs, but when men denote theology, the main idea of the message could be understood different and determine something completely different. Ombres states on his article, “The presence of doctrinal truths - the matter of theology - in the canons can of course take explicit or implicit form.” The word or the term canon is utilized to describe the list of books that were inspired by the Holy Spirit and belong to the Bible or rules. Thru my research, I noticed that many people were writing back then, consequently, was necessary to establish a board to identify which of those writing were exactly inspired by God. Lee Martin Mcdonald mentions on his book that, “ In terms of the Old Testament (OT) Biblical canon, many new studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls have emerged in the last fifteen years that have helped build stronger case that the move toward fixing or stabilizing the content of the Hebrew Bible, the OT, came near the end of the first century C.E. for the Jewish influence on the Christians’ Bible was largely over after 62 C.E., when the Christians left Jerusalem for Pella.” The Bible …show more content…
It has help construct the people of God with His guidance and message. Towns points out that, “the inspiration is the influence on men, by the work of the Holy Spirit, so that God gave man His direct and exact message to be written down by men.” We see that unorthodoxies, even now, will outbreak the church and lead believers awry. Though these may seem to bring the church down, in result they helped develop and solidify the basis of the Christian faith. They helped implore the great need for the New Testament Canon to refute the attackers of the church for the time to come. From side to side these bad situations, God have endured believable to His church by employing leaders to represent against these attacks and epidemics that began to plague the church. Ultimately, these leaders assisted downfall the deviations and lead us back on the conduit to orthodoxy. Jowers says, “By determining which books were or were not authored or approved by apostles, therefore, the church can delineate the NT canon without relying on the assistance of an extra-scriptural, infallible authority.” The canon is necessary for each Christians. It is used by God to talks to us and teaches us. The Bible consistently affirms the authority of Scripture. The book of Hebrew mentions, “For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the