Bible: The Bible And The Creation Of The Bible

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The Biblical cannon is the complete, inspired, and inerrant Word of God, inspired and preserved by God, including the construction of the cannon. It is composed of 66 books written by over 40 different authors over a thousand-year time span. The first set of writings were the Old Testament, complete approximately four centuries before the birth of Christ. The first book to be completed was the Torah, written by Moses approximately 1400 B.C. His writings were considered authoritative because of his authority as a prophet, backed the miracles God performed through him (Cartwright, Jonathan, Gutierrez & Hulshof 2016). The Torah, known in the English Bible as the Pentateuch, or five books, comprised the cannon to which all other books would be compared. …show more content…

These books were written either by or in association with mighty prophets of God who received direct revelation from God and were accompanied by many of God’s miracles. The final set of cannon were the Writings, Ruth, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Lamentations, Daniel, Esther, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles. In Luke 24, Jesus discusses the prophets from Abel to Zechariah, where Abel is found in Genesis and Zechariah is found in 2 Chronicles 24, the first and last book of the Jewish cannon. The New Testament also quotes from every Old Testament books except Esther, and declares in 2 Tim 3:16 that all Scripture is inspired by God (Cartwright, Jonathan, Gutierrez & Hulshof

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