I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything.

Okay are we ready? This is if you're a little tired and a little sleepy,

I'm just gonna warn you ahead of time,

there's gonna be a ton of information

that's gonna be thrown at you, right?

But, but, at the end, I'm to give you a big picture summary of all the stuff that I here's what it means

everything that I shared if you get the summary you're okay

So you could sleep till the end if you have to. But I can't really give you the

summary unless I give you some of the reasons that I'm able to summarize.

Does that make sense? So I want to do that well. So this is evidence for the Bible

part 13 and this is how we got our new testament. Last week in the last message we talked about the first century sources

the New Testament text themselves which gives us a ton of reason to accept many

many books that are in the Bible we talked about. That Jesus is the standard for Christianity

that the apostles were chosen and sent by him, that the teaching of the

apostles became the foundation of the church. This is all historically

supported. And then the writings of those apostles are all that's left of that

authoritative teaching and what we didn't get into too much but what is true is that the

Old Testament environment supports the idea of there being this new testament and that's a whole

theological thing that we're just not going to get into just because I can't get into

everything for the sake of time. But the question we have now is how was this these

texts, these new testament texts received in the later parts of the church not just

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