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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE BIBLE/#3 Book 3

Introducing a unique series of books under the title All you need to know about the Bible. The six books will cover almost every question you may ask about the Bible and at a level that is both accessible for the ordinary reader and valuable for the Bible student. The whole series is fully referenced and indexed. It will prove an indispensable addition to the library of all who take the Bible seriously and teach it at any level, or who simply want to check out the many questions that are being asked today and be equipped to give an informed defence of the faith. Each book is only around 140 pages and the series is priced to be within the reach of all who are serious about the Bible.
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  • ISBN 9781846255861
  • Author EDWARDS BRIAN
  • Pub Date 01/10/2017
If the Bible really is what it claims to be — the final and authoritative revelation from God — it is essential that we should be certain that in the sixty-six books that make up its pages we have exactly what God intended to be there, no more and no less. It is commonplace today, among atheists, Muslims and an unthinking and gullible public, to suggest that we have all the wrong books in the Bible or that it was a mere lottery which ones eventually entered the ‘canon’, or collection of books. In this third book in the series we examine the question of how the collection of books came into existence; a collection that would be divine in its authorship, fixed in its number, and final in its authority. Where did the idea of collecting the books together come from? In order to answer this, we begin with the Jews and their Bible. This is the easy part, because there was never any serious disagreement among the Jews about which books belonged in their Hebrew Scriptures and which should be rejected. The Jewish ‘Bible’ is exactly the same as our Old Testament. They numbered and arranged the books differently, but the same books are there, and no others. But what about the Apocrypha? Chapter 2 of this third book in the series examines carefully the growth of the collected books of our Bible, and why the Apocrypha was never part of this.
If the Bible really is what it claims to be — the final and authoritative revelation from God — it is essential that we should be certain that in the sixty-six books that make up its pages we have exactly what God intended to be there, no more and no less. It is commonplace today, among atheists, Muslims and an unthinking and gullible public, to suggest that we have all the wrong books in the Bible or that it was a mere lottery which ones eventually entered the ‘canon’, or collection of books. In this third book in the series we examine the question of how the collection of books came into existence; a collection that would be divine in its authorship, fixed in its number, and final in its authority. Where did the idea of collecting the books together come from? In order to answer this, we begin with the Jews and their Bible. This is the easy part, because there was never any serious disagreement among the Jews about which books belonged in their Hebrew Scriptures and which should be rejected. The Jewish ‘Bible’ is exactly the same as our Old Testament. They numbered and arranged the books differently, but the same books are there, and no others. But what about the Apocrypha? Chapter 2 of this third book in the series examines carefully the growth of the collected books of our Bible, and why the Apocrypha was never part of this.
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AuthorEDWARDS BRIAN
Pub Date01/10/2017
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