AMERICAN CHRISTIAN #50“Why Do You Believe What You Believe?”

Ever heard of the Apocrypha?  Or any of  the “Lost Books of the Bible”?  These are books or writings that the Jews never accepted as Scripture, why they have not been included in the New Testament writings?  Did 5-year-old Jesus turn mud pies into sparrows on the sabbath?   Where do the authoritative Scriptures come from?  What makes them authoritative?  Also, the word “inspiration” (2 Timothy 3:16) translates θεοπνευστος (THEOPNEUSTOS), a Greek word occurring only once in the New Testament. Its meaning, literally, is “God-breathed.”  And, how is the Word of God rightly divided?  Welcome to Hermeneutics 101.

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