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BENJAMIN LAIRD | Composition, Controversy, and the Authority of the New Testament (Ep. 524)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Benjamin Laird to the show. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Aberdeen and is an Associate Professor of biblical studies at the John W. Rawlings School of Divinity at Liberty University. He has written several books about the New Testament to include The Pauline Corpus in Early Christianity, 40 Questions about the Apostle Paul, Five Views on the New Testament Canon, and his latest book Creating the Canon: Composition, Controversy, and the Authority of the New Testament. In this interview, we discuss why he is so interested in the New Testament writings, how the NT writers would have gone about the process of composing their writings, why people don’t need to be concerned that we don’t have the “original autographs” of the NT writings, the controversy surrounding the Council of Nicea and works of Marcion as it pertains to the creation of the Canon, how the NT writings were spread throughout the ancient world, how confident we can be that our English translations match the meanings of the writings in their original languages, and much more. Let’s get into it…  Episode notes and links HERE. Try out the Relay Recovery app HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:23.4

I'm your host Kyle Thompson.

0:25.0

Let's get into it.

0:26.8

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

0:28.6

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

0:32.6

He's an associate professor of biblical studies

0:34.8

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

0:38.3

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

0:41.0

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

0:44.4

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

0:48.8

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

0:55.0

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

0:59.0

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

1:02.0

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

1:04.4

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

1:07.3

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

1:10.1

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

1:14.0

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

1:17.2

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

1:21.7

New Testament authors have gone about the

1:23.7

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

1:27.6

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

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