"The canonicity of the Bible books is rooted in their existence. They have authority of themselves, by their own right, because they exist. It is the Spirit of the Lord who guided the authors in writing them and the church in acknowledging them." (I:401)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
CANON QUESTIONS
A brother reminded me this week about the importance of having adequate answers to questions about our canon of Scripture. For instance, it's pretty intuitive to ask, 'How do we know that the Bible books in our Bible are the ones that are supposed to be there?' I looked at this questions about two months ago and found lots of help from a couple of Herman's--Ridderbos and Bavinck. Bavinck in Volume 1 of his Church Dogmatics (which is well worth the 27 bones it's going for on half.com) says,
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oh this strange blog world where no one knows what random passer-by might be reading their thoughts and ideas.
well, now you know of another one.
And i'm still waiting for you to answer all of my theological questions. In fact, this is one i'm especially interested in so why such a short post? more please?
Erin F.
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