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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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0:00.0 | As Christians, we can sometimes take for granted the Bibles we hold in our hands today. |
0:08.0 | Stop and think about it, and soon lots of questions come to mind. |
0:12.0 | How did all 66 books of the Bible come together? |
0:15.0 | When did that happen? And how do we know we're not missing any books? |
0:19.0 | My guest today is Michael Krueuger, and in our conversation, |
0:21.8 | he walks us through the history of the canon, |
0:24.4 | sharing his own story of having to wrestle |
0:26.7 | with how we got the Bible as it exists today. |
0:29.7 | Along the way, he responds to common questions |
0:32.2 | and misconceptions people tend to have |
0:34.3 | related to our Bibles, how they were formed, |
0:36.6 | and what it means for our faith. |
0:38.9 | Michael Kruger is the president and Samuel C. Patterson Professor of New Testament and early Christianity |
0:44.2 | at Reformed Theological Seminary. He's also a leading scholar on the origins and development |
0:49.9 | of the New Testament canon revisited, establishing the origins and authority of the New Testament canon, and the author of Canon Revisited, establishing the origins and authority |
0:56.0 | of the New Testament books from Crossway. |
0:58.7 | Let's get started. |
1:04.9 | Well, Michael, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast. |
1:08.6 | That's good to be with you. |
1:09.9 | So today we're going to talk about the Bible and more specifically this idea of the canon, |
1:15.2 | this concept of canonicity, something that I think for some Christians, they might be familiar |
1:19.8 | with that idea, but for others, they might not have ever even heard that word thrown around |
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