WHO CREATED THE BIBLE?
DINESH Podcast
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4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Who decided which books belong in the Bible — and why did Enoch, Thomas, and Peter get left out?
It wasn’t The Da Vinci Code version. It wasn’t Constantine at Nicaea. And it wasn’t some random power grab.
The real story of the biblical canon is far more fascinating.
Also, my guest Dave Rubin explains how he went from the Left to becoming one of its most outspoken critics.
What changed his mind?
(1:58) Bible as Inspired Library
(4:20) Catholics vs. Protestants
(6:25) The Da Vinci Code Myth
(8:00) Bart's Critique
(9:52) Why Enoch Was Excluded
(13:29) Four Criteria for the Canon
(15:07) Gospel of Thomas Examined
(16:40) How the Canon Was Formed
(19:43) Guest: Dave Rubin
(22:31) Leaving the Left Behind
(28:52) When the Left Abandoned Liberty
(40:37) Realism Over Bumper Stickers
(43:20) Tucker, Candace & Megan
(47:12) Covid and Institutional Lies
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| 0:29.6 | AARP. As a Christian, I believe the Bible is the inspired word of God. The Bible is the book in which God communicates his formula for how we should live. And yet, the Bible is not really a single book. |
| 0:56.5 | We think of it that way. |
| 0:57.4 | It seems that way when we hold it in our hand. |
| 0:59.6 | But in reality, the Bible is a collection of books written by many different writers over a long period of time. |
| 1:06.2 | In a sense, the Bible is not an inspired book, but an inspired library, an inspired collection of books |
| 1:12.0 | written down over a period of 1,000 to 1,500 years. |
| 1:16.7 | But how do we know that the books in the Bible are the ones that God inspired? |
| 1:21.2 | How do we know they've come down to us accurately through the ages? |
| 1:25.1 | Who chose those books? |
| 1:26.3 | When? |
| 1:27.0 | And on what basis? For centuries, |
| 1:29.3 | these questions were asked only by scholars, but not by ordinary Christian believers. The Bible |
| 1:34.4 | was taken for the most part on faith. God said it, I believe it, and that's that. |
| 1:38.8 | Our society was largely Christian, and therefore the assumptions of Christian orthodoxy were |
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