What's God's Inspired Word? And What Isn't?
In recent years, some people have questioned the Bible’s completeness. They claim the modern English Bible of 66 books is incomplete, and that it ought to contain many other books as well, such as the book of Enoch, the book of Jasher, the book of Jubilees, and even other gospels and epistles in the New Testament. They assert that human beings, of their own accord and without God’s direction, chose to slash and burn those other books out of the Bible. In this post, I won’t argue about the truth of the Bible itself or any of its 66 books. Any discussion of that is a topic for another day. Today, I’m going to assume you already know and accept that the Bible is God’s inspired Word, and work from there. When wondering whether books of inspired Scripture have been slashed and burned out of the Bible, let’s ask ourselves this: Would God allow puny humans to thwart His purpose? To mutilate His inspired Word and chop vital sections out of it? Let’s consider that God used the Jews, often uncon...