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Now the history of the New Testament is quite similar, although it does not extend over as many years as that of the Old Testament. It is evident from the writings of the apostles and of the Church fathers, that the Old Testament Bible was accepted as the Word of God from earliest times. Gradually
The New Testament with its account of our Savior’s atonement and resurrection, the apostolic era and the Epistles and the gathering of the church out of the nations, when the apostles wrote, Let every soul be subject to the higher powers, honor the king, obey magistrates, pay tribute, pray for those
Our New Testament was not officially recognized as a unity until 397 A.D., but even then its several books had been read in the churches from the time they were written. Throughout history the church, guided by the Holy Spirit is the judge whether or not any given writing is Divinely inspired and th
The New Testament church began with an emphasis on communal living while existing and growing in the midst of a very Aristotelian society. Paul’s writings guided the church away from much of the patriarchal mindset of their culture by reminding the new converts that they were equal heirs of salvatio
The New Testament is the fulness of light streaming from His blessed countenance through the ages to come until the final day, the day of the consummation of all things. Together those Scriptures point us to the final day, the day of the Lord, the day of the perfecting of Gods covenant and kingdom i
In the third place, the twenty-seven books that now constitute our New Testament came into existence gradually and as so many individual books at first. The apostles were called chiefly to preach, rather than to write. And the contents of their preaching centered around the great facts of the minist
In the early days of the New Testament church, the 27 God-breathed New Testament books were recognized and grouped together. Uninspired materials, such as the Didache and the Shepherd of Hermas, were set aside. From the original autographs good copies were made. These were then copied, and so on. Th
"The principal books of the New Testament, the four Gospels, the Acts, the thirteen Epistles of Paul, the first Epistle of Peter, and the first of John, which are designated by Eusebius as 'Homologumena,' were in general use in the church after the middle of the second century, and acknowledged to b
church; and this theology of the New Testament church was emphatically progressive. But I intend to return to that matter a bit later. Although it is necessary to treat the weakness of biblical theology (especially as applied to the New Testament) and the pervasive reli- ance on higher criticism sep