Angels are very active in the Bible and are used by God as messengers, warriors, and servants. The word "angel" comes from the Greek word "angelos" which means "messenger." Angels are spiritual beings without bodies of flesh and bones though they apparently have the...
Unfortunately, there are those who criticize the reliability and inspiration of the Bible and along with their criticism accuse those who believe in the inerrancy of Scripture as being virtual idolaters and of venerating the Bible more than the message - more than...
If we don't have the original biblical documents but only possess copies (that have copyist errors), then how can we argue that the original documents were without error? We don't need to have the original documents in order to demonstrate their inerrancy any more...
One of the objections raised by critics of biblical inspiration is that the Bible is not the word of God, but that it contains the word of God. Is this accurate? No. First of all, this doesn't fit what the Bible says about itself. The collection of 66 books that...
In English, we have alpha and numeric characters: a,b,c,d,e, etc., & 0,1,2,3,4, etc. Both Greek and Hebrew have only one set of characters used for both words and numbers. When a word in Greek, for example, is written out, it has a mathematical value. This value...
The dating of the book of Acts is important because Acts was written after Luke. If Acts was written in, say, A.D. 60, this would mean the Gospel of Luke was written before that period and would add credence to the claim that the gospels were written early, close to...
The Bible was written over approximately 1600 years in three different languages, on three different continents, by 40 different authors. The following table lists out the order of the books as they were written. The following dates are not exact because we cannot be...
Sometimes, cult groups, and other religions, will attempt to justify the existence of newly inspired books (i.e., Book of Mormon, the Quran) by citing references to other books that are mentioned in the Bible. They erringly conclude that because the Bible sometimes...
The word "canon" means "standard" or "rule." It is the list of authoritative and inspired Scriptures. Different religions have different canons. In Judaism, the canon consists of the books of the Old Testament only. In Protestant Christianity, the canon is the body...
List of New Testament Books with a very brief statement of what each book is about. The New Testament has 27 books in total, which consist of... Historical Books - Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts Pauline Epistles - Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians,...