{"id":2786,"date":"2012-08-01T20:12:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T20:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2012-08-01T20:12:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T20:12:44","slug":"the-canon-of-sacred-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/the-canon-of-sacred-scripture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canon of Sacred Scripture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today a gentlemen in the church asked me about the canon of scripture. \u00a0After sending him over some resources, I thought it might be good to make them more widely available. \u00a0Enjoy and learn.<\/p>\n<p>1.)\u00a0<a title=\"Bruce article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bible-researcher.com\/bruce1.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Canon of the New Testament<\/a>, by FF Bruce<\/p>\n<p>2.)\u00a0<a title=\"Hill article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/learn\/articles\/new-covenant-scriptures\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Covenant Scriptures<\/a> &#8212;-by\u00a0Dr. Charles E. Hill, is professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>3.) In centuries past, the church was faced with the important task of recognizing which books belong in the Bible. The Bible itself is not a single book but a collection of many individual books. What the church sought to establish was what we call the canon of sacred Scripture. The word\u00a0<em>canon<\/em>\u00a0comes from a Greek word that means \u201cstandard or measuring rod.\u201d So the canon of sacred Scripture delineates the standard that the church used in receiving the Word of God. \u00a0Read the entire article<a title=\"Sproul Canon article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/learn\/articles\/tota-scriptura\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Tota Scriptura<\/a>, by RC Sproul<\/p>\n<p>4.)\u00a0<a title=\"Frame canon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyfelich.com\/2010\/07\/frame-on-canon-of-scripture.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Canon of Scripture<\/a>, by John Frame<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/the-canon-of-sacred-scripture\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a gentlemen in the church asked me about the canon of scripture. \u00a0After sending him over some resources, I thought it might be good to make them more widely available. \u00a0Enjoy and learn.<\/p>\n<p>1.)\u00a0<a title=\"Bruce article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bible-researcher.com\/bruce1.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Canon of the New Testament<\/a>, by FF Bruce<\/p>\n<p>2.)\u00a0<a title=\"Hill article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/learn\/articles\/new-covenant-scriptures\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Covenant Scriptures<\/a> &#8212;-by\u00a0Dr. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-IW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}