If the Bible Was Written by Humans, Does that Change Its Reliability?

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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How the Bible Was Formed Q+R (E5) — What is the relationship between the written word of the Bible and Jesus as the Word at the beginning of creation? How do we reconcile the Bible’s editing process with Scriptures that forbid adding or taking away from God’s word? And what should we do with other writings that closely followed the New Testament? In this episode, Tim and Jon respond to your questions from our How the Bible Was Formed series. Thank you to our audience for your thoughtful contributions to this episode!

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0:00.0	Hey, Tim.
0:05.9	Hi, John.
0:06.8	Hi.
0:07.2	Hello.
0:07.6	We get to do a question and response episode.
0:10.0	Mm-hmm.
0:10.5	We are.
0:11.2	Related to the very short flyover series.
0:15.3	Yeah.
0:15.8	We're called the making of the Bible.
0:17.2	Yeah.
0:17.5	Or how the Bible was formed.
0:18.7	Is that what we called it?
0:20.2	I think so.
0:20.6	Okay. I think that's in terms of like the podcast. Yeah. Feeds that people see how the Bible
0:26.0	was formed. It was a short series. I think on purpose. One was because if you let me, I could make it
0:33.2	half a year or a year long. Yeah. And the Bible formation project? Yeah. So sometimes there's a benefit
0:41.3	to being forced to be succinct. And hopefully that was a helpful flyover to kind of flag the key
0:48.2	issues you got to think through when it comes to the formation of the Bible. It raised, I'm sure,
0:53.9	actually, I know for a fact,
0:55.4	it raised hundreds of questions among our listening audience because we got to hear from you.
1:00.9	So as always, I read through them all, try and listen to the themes, what's most repeated,
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