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Discussion Questions
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In your own words, give a brief explanation of how the New Testament came to be.
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The New Testament came to be from God. The disciples who followed him or heard of him for others wrote down his stories.
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The New Testament came to be through God the father. But it seems it was very important that the writers of the New Testament had a connection to Jesus and the early church. Later works, like Thomas, did not meet the criteria, like that connection and were therefore left out.
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It would seem that the gospels and letters, of utmost importance to the early believers, would have been loviingly and painstakingly copied, passed on verbally, and possibly memorized much as we do today. As the second generation of believers led the church they also had to deal with false teachers and false teachings. So they would meet together to pray and discuss what people were hearing, and they would have used what they had already copied or knew from verbal teaching or prophecies from the Old Testament to continue to teach the truth in the church.
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The New Testament came to be through revelation from God and by the leading of the Holy Spirit. The forming of the New Testament came through careful consideration of the validity of each account.
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The New Testament came to be through God. Jesus’s disciples and their followers were inspired by God to write down the new covenant between man and God that Jesus created.
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Describe in your own words, the three major criteria the twenty-seven books of the New Testament had to meet to be included in the New Testament.
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Consistancy- were the teachings consistant with other teachings in the OT.
Catholocity- were they widely accepted
Apostalic Authority- were they written by an apostle or a close associate of an apostle -
1. Coherence with the previous Scripture
2. Universality of the Scripture
3. Apostolicity or the authority of the apostles -
The 27 books of the NT had to be: 1) consistent with OT writings, not in conflict; 2)catholicity consistent with christian writings; 3)written by an apostle : Apolistic
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The three major criteria that the twenty seven books of the New Testament had to meet to be included in the New Testament are 1. Alignment with the Old Testament and support its content. 2. Catholicity, which means that Christians had to accepts the teachings of the New Testament. 3. Authroity, meaning that the apostles, or their companion, had written the stories.
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1. Consistency with the Old Testament
2. Catholicity or it had to be universally accepted throughout the Christian world
3. Authority-had to be written by an apostle or a companion of an apostle