How important is the Bible? Pretty important. I'm Father Matt Lowry, a priest of the

diocese of Phoenix, serving at Northern Arizona University, and today we're going to talk all

about how important is Scripture. Where do we receive the Bible? Some people feel, and they act as

if the Bible has always existed. And so questioning people like,

hey, where did the Bible come from is a little bit like Scott Hahn says, is asking somebody

to taste their tongue. They just, they can't fathom or understand. You know, they might quote

scripture to us and say, all scripture is useful for teaching and for refutation. But it's still a valid question.

Where do we get the Bible? Well, you have to start first in the Old Testament, that you have

the people who come through the Red Sea, out of slavery, and they come to the promised land.

And Moses is the main figure there there and about that time that he

began to write down because people didn't always write stuff down but they

they passed it out orally and people were much better at remembering things

you know how you know like we write things down and then I can't remember

stuff all the time but in the old days like that's you had to remember that

oral story and they were experts at remembering those things.

There's even early church fathers who supposedly could, basically, they memorized the Bible.

They just, that's what you had to do and they were good at it.

And so we have these stories of how God has revealed himself to this particular people, the Hebrew, the Israelite people.

And so out of all the people on the earth, that he's chosen these people.

And so we believe that God, that the Holy Spirit, works through the authors of Scripture.

That they're not in like a trance where he just like, they're not conscious,

but they're actually, they are conscious.

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