Welcome to Mortification of Spin, the casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

This week, the crew talks with Michael Kruger about the canon of Scripture.

Why do we have the books we have in the Bible? And is the

entire Bible really the words of God? How confident can we really be? Let's join the conversation

with Amy, Todd, Carl, and Dr. Kruger.

Welcome to Mordification of Spin.

The usual crew is here.

I'm Carl Truman with my good friend Amy Bird and that other guy whose name eludes me at the moment.

We're very privileged today to have, as our guest, Professor Michael Kruger, who is president of Reformed Theological Seminary, their campus in Charlotte, and is also the Samuel C. Patterson

Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, and the author of numerous books dealing

with the rise of orthodoxy in the early church, the nature and extent of the

Christian canon, and is currently working on a book on the nature of Christianity in very neglected

century, the second century. So great to have you with us, Mike. Thanks, Carl. Great to be with all

of you. Great. Good. We hope you feel that way. Yes. Even the unnamed one at the end of the table.

I want to kick off with a question.

Probably the most important question we're going to ask today.

It's one that's been burning on us.

Yes.

What does it like to be married to Melissa Krug?

Oh, it is quite an experience, I can assure you.

Well, fantastic. But I get to now make fun of myself a lot, being married to her, because I cannot tell you how many times I've been at a conference. I'm the speaker. I give a talk. And you know how people come up to you after the talk. And regularly they'll come up and go, hey, I just got to tell you, your wife is awesome. And they'll go on and on about her books and her writing. And I'm like, hey, you know, I've written a few books.

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