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

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take you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian. Welcome back to

Verity Podcast friends, Felicia here. I'm going to be quite honest with you.

I'm recording this in my bathing suit. Yes indeed, I just came inside from hanging

out in the kitty pool with my four-year-old who may bust through the door at any

moment so I apologize if you hear her in the background I'm recording in a different room today

so we are moving into a new episode of the Canon series talking

about the canonization of the Epistles. So in this episode, as we talk about the Epistles, I want you to keep in mind everything

that we discussed regarding the Gospels, because that will be an important foundation

in this conversation.

So while a lot of that information applies just as much to the Epistles,

as it does to the Gospels,

we're going to be talking about how the epistles were affirmed as authoritative. The purpose of

the epistles, so why they were written, their style, literary style, the sources that they were drawn from, as well as some important dates and church

fathers who used and affirmed them.

And all of this is going to point once again to the same standard for canonization that we have had all along.

Those early eyewitnesses, specifically apostolic or prophetic, that agree with the whole of the canon, so a consistent

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