Part Two
Bibliology: 13 THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
Bibliology: 13 THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
It is
generally agreed that the New Testament writers did not get together and decide
to write a new canon of Scripture. The epistles were written to meet a particular local need and were addressed either to a local
church or to a person. The Gospels and the Acts, being of an historical nature,
were doubtless written, as Luke states: “That thou mightest know the certainty
of those things, wherein thou has been instructed” (Luke 1:4). At the beginning
the churches, if they possessed any Scriptures at all, had only the Old
Testament. Paul did not write any epistles to the churches which he had
established until at least ten years had expired. The truth of the new
dispensation was at the first disseminated orally through the preaching of Paul
and the other apostles and by means of prophets who were raised up in each of
the churches (cf. I Corinthians 14:29-33).
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