What Is the Old Testament?

This is Question #1 in Orpheus J. Heyward’s God’s Word: The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture.

A Brief History of the Bible: From Creation to Now

You’ve probably heard it said before that the Bible is God’s word. While that’s true, there’s more to the story. God’s word encompasses more than just the Bible. God’s word is everything that He has ever spoken, written, and inspired people to speak and write. God has spoken through creation, in what is often referred […]

A 3-Step Process for Reading the Bible – Q&A with Orpheus J. Heyward

*Editor’s Note: Reading the Bible can be daunting. It helps to have steps in mind which help make the process of Bible reading understandable. I recently caught up with Dr. Orpheus J. Heyward, a minister, scholar, and teacher of Bible interpretation (hermeneutics) to get his thoughts on how we can bridge the gap between the […]

The Inspiration of the Old Testament

Flavius Josephus, a Jewish historian during the first century AD discussed the Hebrew Scriptures in the time of Jesus in an apologetic work written against a non-Jew named Apion. Josephus writes about the superiority of the Hebrew Scriptures over pagan writings in his work, Against Apion (1.8). For example, Josephus argues in this defense of […]

Is a Late Canon Bad News for Bible-Believers?

Canon comes from a Greek word meaning “rule” or “standard.” Christians use the word canon to describe the authoritative books which make up our Bible. These books are our rule and standard. To review from the previous article, we don’t find all 27 books being labeled by the church as the definitive New Testament until […]

Making Sense of the Gap between the Writing of the NT and Its Compilation

The 27 books of the New Testament were all written sometime in the 1st century AD. But when were all these 27 books first compiled into what we now call the New Testament? That’s a different question entirely. Were all 27 books compiled together in the 1st Century, when the books were written? No. How […]