I'm your host Kyle Thompson. This is an Undaunted Life a Man's Podcast.

I'm your host Kyle Thompson.

Let's get into it.

All right guys, we've got a special interview for today.

It is with Benjamin Laird, so he has his PhD from the University of Aberdeen.

He's an associate professor of biblical studies

at the John W Rawling School of Divinity at Liberty University.

And he's authored a bunch of books about New Testament topics

like the Pauline Corpus and early Christianity, 40 questions about the

Apostle Paul, five views on the New Testament canon and his latest book which is the scaffolding

for today's conversation, creating the canon, composition, controversy, and the authority of the New Testament.

And so I've been wanting to have a guy on that was a New Testament expert for a while to talk about,

okay, how did we get the canon, like how do we get the accepted epistles?

And why are some of epistles not included or should they even be called

epistles? What about the other writings of Paul? How do we know that all

this is legit and all this should be in the Canada? Is there stuff

missing? And so that's why I had him on. So we talk about how we got into this line of work,

where his interest for the New Testament lies and some of the things that he's going to be

working on. But in terms of digging into the New Testament, we talk about how would the

New Testament authors have gone about the

the task of composing their writings. What is this concept of the single

original autograph or what some people would say, hey you don't have the

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