What Books are Inspired in Scripture? - BreakPoint Q&A
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Colson Center
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🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane field questions from listeners. Today they give an encompassing explanation to how we define inspiration in the Biblical canon. They identify cultural trends that steer the question and provide strong traditional explanation that provides structure in thinking well on the issue of authenticity and accuracy in the Biblical canon.
Shane then engages a question on definitions for the Christian family. The questioner seeks to understand a line or border that defines a liberal or conservative way of thinking that might be outside the framework of Scripture and thus place a person or way of thinking in futility and outside the kingdom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Shane Morris. I'm here with John Stone Street to answer your questions. |
| 0:09.5 | All of these were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries and podcasts that we've recently aired on short courses we've held in articles and columns we've posted. |
| 0:18.4 | If you want to submit a question of your own for us to talk about here |
| 0:21.1 | on the podcast, you can email us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, the first |
| 0:28.1 | question I want to tackle today is one of those apologetics questions that you probably got a ton |
| 0:33.6 | back at summit, and you've probably read six or seven books on the subject. So I expect |
| 0:38.6 | you to make a really excellent showing on this, no pressure. But it's a question about part of the |
| 0:44.5 | source of our worldview, which is the revelation that we receive in scripture and how we know we |
| 0:50.0 | can trust this revelation. So this is the sort of thing you'd see in, you know, Norm Geisler apologetics books. But it's key, I think, for, you know, worldview thinkers and |
| 1:01.0 | writers to be able to answer something like this because it is so foundational. So I'll just |
| 1:05.3 | read the question that came in. I was skeptical as to why I and all true Christians worldwide |
| 1:10.7 | can have faith that the 66 |
| 1:13.0 | books of the Bible are in fact inspired by God. |
| 1:15.6 | I grew up a missionary in Mexico, and I am a sophomore homeschool student in high school |
| 1:20.4 | who's currently living in the U.S. |
| 1:21.8 | I am a devout Christian and am confident that the story of the Bible tells is accurate |
| 1:26.5 | and true. |
| 1:27.1 | However, I also believe that the Bible is authored by God through human writers. |
| 1:31.3 | Yet, I'm skeptical as to how people can know which books are inspired and which are not. |
| 1:37.1 | So a really great question there about what we call the canon when it comes to, you know, |
| 1:42.3 | studying scripture and its origins. |
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