Featured Do you hold the Bible as Inerrant/inspired/infallible?

He did write them. Have you ever studied the term "inspired" in 2 Tim. 3:16 and the contextual meaning of "private interpetation" in 2 Pet. 1:20??

The term "inspired" provides a picture as though the words of scriptures came directly from the vocal chords of God Himself. The contextual definition of "private interpretation" means the instruments used by God to write the scriptures did not express their personal opinions but expressed precisely the opinion of the Holy Spirit which moved them to use words He chose.

There are no such contradictions between the gospel writers. All such supposed contradictions can be easily explained by one of the following responses:

1. You are confusing transcribal errors with writer errors.

2. None of the gospels are designed to be a complete biography of Christ's life.

3. Each gospel has a different design and purpose. For example Matthew's gospel is designed to be manual for discipleship and thus he arranges things in TOPICAL order rather than CHRONOLOGICAL order at times.

4. Some "contradiction" are purely imaginary and failure to consider all the contextual circumcstances and contrasts.

5. There is a difference between paradoxical and contradiction.

Jesus said the scriptures "cannot be broken" and the Greek term translated "broken" here is also used for the bandages wrapped around a corpse before burial. It cannot be unravelled so you can find a hole in it.

Finally, although I regard TS a friend, and although I do agree with much of what he says, I believe the canonization of the scriptures old and new are clearly and explicitly a matter of prophecy (Isa. 8:16-20) which Jesus clearly and explicitly confirmed in John 16:15 and which the apostles clearly and explicitly realized was their prophetic job to fulfill (2 Thes. 2:15; Rev. 1:3; 22:18-20; 1 Jn. 4:5-6; 2 Pet. 3:15-17; etc.) and that the entire scriptures were completed during the life time of the apostle John near the end of the first century and confirmed as such by Tertullian to be the "whole volume" as given to the churches by the apostles. What few books Tertullian did not explicitly cite were cited by previous writers. Both the Old Testament apocrapha and New Testament apocrapha were rejected as scriptues but both used as we use commentaries and devotional books today. Rome was not the first to canonize the scriptures and Romes canonization violates the canonization of the Old Testament by those God entrusted it too as the Jews rejected the Old Testament apocrapha.