816: Where Did the Bible Come From?
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 3 September 2020
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Summary
The Bible didn't just fall from heaven. There was actually a rather complex and sometimes messy journey from writing the biblical books to putting the "Bible" into your hands. In this episode, I discuss the so-called Canonization of the Old and New Testaments, asking questions like: why are these books included in the Bible--no more, and no less? What about the Apocrypha? What about other books like the Didache or the Gospel of Thomas--who decided that those books shouldn't be in the Bible? And what was the criteria for determining (or recognizing?) which books should be in the Bible? And, why does all of this matter?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Ra. What you're going to hear today |
| 0:05.7 | is the first of a three-part sermon series that I co-taught with my good friend Roger Valtchi, |
| 0:13.5 | pastor, he's a pastor out in Dublin, California |
| 0:17.1 | at Valley Christian Center, Church, or Valley Christian Church, |
| 0:20.8 | no, I think of Valley Christian Center. |
| 0:22.1 | And I did this over the summer. or Valley Christian Church, not the Valley Christian Center. |
| 0:23.0 | And I did this over the summer through Zoom. |
| 0:27.2 | Actually, no, it wasn't Zoom. |
| 0:28.1 | I recorded the videos. |
| 0:29.7 | They sent it to them, they docked them up. |
| 0:31.2 | Anyway, you don't care about all that. It was a series on the Bible and I this is one of my favorite topics |
| 0:39.7 | understanding the |
| 0:45.0 | complexity, the mystery, the tensions within scripture. I love understanding where the Bible came from, |
| 0:48.0 | the canonization process. |
| 0:50.2 | I love wrestling with tensions or apparent contradictions in the Bible and on and on it goes. |
| 0:55.5 | So this is the first of three quote-unquote sermons that I did, but I thought that the tone, the vibe, the feel this would fit perfectly with the podcast. |
| 1:08.0 | So that's why I'm uploading all three to the podcast. This first one is about the canonization of the Bible. Where did the |
| 1:14.8 | Bible come from? Why 66 books and not 67 books? What about all the other |
| 1:19.3 | pieces of religious literature that Jews and Christians were reading at that time. |
| 1:25.0 | Who decided which books were in and out? |
| 1:27.6 | How did they decide which books were in and out? |
| 1:31.0 | And on and on it goes. |
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