Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith.

Ask questions, seek answers,

and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for watered down Christian teaching.

And if you're ready to go deeper God is just as ready to

take you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian. Well friends we

are back for season two of Verity podcast and I cannot tell you how

excited I am for this season. We are talking all about the canon of the Bible or how the books that we are holding in the Bible today

came to be there. How are they compiled? How are they chosen? Why do they have authority? Why do we believe what they say?

This is going to be an in-depth look at how each section of scripture from the

Pentatuke, the first five books to the New Testament, were canonized and deemed part of an authoritative unit of scripture.

We're going to get into so much this season, but in this introductory episode, what I really want to talk about are the foundational elements of understanding the Bible itself.

So inspiration, inerrancy, infallibility, all these words that we

hear thrown around about the Bible but maybe don't entirely know what they mean.

We're going to look at some scriptures that support the Bible as authoritative.

And we're going to talk a little bit about the church history that supports this as well but I'm going to

save most of that church history for the in-depth discussions of each section of

scripture that was canonized. So I hope you're as excited as I am.

I think this is going to be extremely helpful

to you in your conversations

as you defend your faith, as you share with your coworkers, this is going to be one of the

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