Welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast, where we're all about providing sound doctrine

for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hin, and on today's episode, I invited my friend, Mike Recardi, to

join me in answering a key question we've gotten here quite a bit at For the Gospel.

Why isn't the Bible being added to anymore?

Or asked another way, you know, why is the Bible the 66 books we refer to today?

And then one more version we've had is, why is the canon closed?

And for those of you that are thinking, what in the world is a canon?

Or what do you mean by that?

It's referring to a compilation of documents or books, holy religious writings in that sense.

And people ask, well, why is it closed?

Why is the Bible over in a sense?

And this is God's Word to us.

Mike's going to talk about that.

He is a faithful pastor at Grace Community Church, and now a full-time faculty member

at the master's seminary in beautiful California.

He's a faithful brother, holds a Ph.D. and his emphasis was on the atonement of Christ.

So we really should have him on to talk about that and much more.

But for now, Mike, welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast.

Thank you, brother.

It is a joy to be with you.

So our audience asked a lot of questions about the Bible recently, and we want to answer

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