#170 The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible, with Dr. John Mead and Dr. Peter Gurry
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 18 September 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
From the invention of writing to the canon of the Old and New Testaments, the best-selling book of all time, the Bible, has a very interesting history. Who were the scribes who copied the manuscripts? How many manuscripts do we have? When was the Bible canonized? What are some misunderstandings people have about how we got the Bible? Today, Dr. John Mead and Dr. Peter Gurry of the Text and Canon Institute at Phoenix seminary join the podcast to share the amazing story of how we got the Bible and dispel some common rumors.
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| 0:00.0 | progressives are getting very bold. |
| 0:02.2 | They're getting very bold. |
| 0:03.7 | And unfortunately, this is just my two cents now. |
| 0:07.7 | I think the evangelical church is at its weakest right now, Elisa. |
| 0:11.0 | And they don't really have great answers to these sorts of things. |
| 0:14.4 | And so we're all going to sound like voices crying out in the wilderness at this point. |
| 0:21.2 | But if Christians and evangelicals especially know their tradition, then none of this stuff should bother them at all, frankly. |
| 0:32.3 | Because every one of these fathers that I could mention that have these views of the books of the Old and New Testament, probably heard similar criticisms and yet held steadfast to the tradition, to what the |
| 0:46.1 | church has always said about these books. Welcome to the Elisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, |
| 1:12.4 | discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth. |
| 1:17.6 | Today we're going to be talking about my favorite topic, the Bible. |
| 1:20.7 | The Bible is the best-selling book of all time, but often there are some misunderstanding |
| 1:25.7 | surrounding how we got it. |
| 1:29.0 | There are all kinds of rumors floating around out there. Some say the Bible is just a human book that was written by people |
| 1:33.7 | about God. Others say that the books of the Bible were simply picked by the winners of theological |
| 1:39.8 | battles. Others say that the books of the Bible were even picked by the Emperor Constantine at the |
| 1:45.0 | Council of Nicaea. So if you've heard any of these rumors, we're going to clear those up today. |
| 1:50.3 | And we're going to talk about the Bible, a book that has been written across thousands of years, |
| 1:54.9 | gathered over centuries, and copied by hand. It's been translated, forbidden, feared, argued over, abused, and above all, treasured. That's |
| 2:04.0 | actually a quote from a book that we're going to talk about today. So today we're going to have |
| 2:07.8 | an Old Testament scholar and a New Testament scholar, and they're going to help clear up some of |
| 2:12.1 | these rumors and help us understand how we got our Bible. But before we get into that, I want to |
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