The New Testament Canon (2 of 8 notes)

Part Two
Bibliology: 13 THE CANON OF SCRIPTURE
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

There can be no doubt, however, but that the writers of the New Testament books believed that they were writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Christ had told His apostles, “He that heareth you heareth me,” (Luke 10:16), and He had promised to give them the Holy Spirit, whose ministry was “to guide them into all truth” (John 16:13). In this context Christ made it clear that He had many things yet to communicate to them which He was not yet free to speak. For one thing, the Holy Spirit had not yet been given to them and further, the offer of the Kingdom which was soon to be made to Israel must first be acted upon before revelation of the new dispensation of the Mystery could be unfolded. As to Paul, there is no doubt but that he was writing under the inspiration of the Spirit. He stated that he was writing words which the Holy Ghost teacheth (1 Corinthians 2:13); that Christ was speaking in him (2 Corinthians 13:3); that he was delivering that which he had received from God (1 Corinthians 15:3); that the Lord had committed authority unto him (2 Corinthians 10:8); that the gospel he preached was not communicated to him by man but by a special revelation of Jesus Christ personally (Galatians 1:12); that what he was saying was by the word of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 4:15); and that he had been divinely appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles (2 Timothy 1:11).

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