The author of the Canon of Scriptures, F.F. Bruce, continues to lay out a rather exhaustive history of the development of the canon of scriptures that we have today. Moving on in time, we come to the studies of Athanasius. As bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius devoted most of his thirty-ninth festal letter to a…

           In these pages of The Canon of Scriptures F.F. Bruce continues a thorough history of the development of the New Testament canon. He writes about the life and scholarly efforts of men such as Irenaues, Hippolytus, and Novatian. Irenaues was one who was able to distinguish the writings of truth from that of apocryphal…

             F.F. Bruce writes in the third part of his book, The Canon of Scripture, on the subject of the New Testament canon. It has already been established that what we have today is a closed canon. In other words, there are no new books of the Bible to be written or discovered. We have…

          In order to understand Biblical languages, one must understand how words are put together. Each word has small meaningful parts that make up the word. These parts are called morphemes. The study of how words are structured is called morphology. Morphology is used to see the pattern of Greek and Hebrew words. There are…

              Chapter two of How Biblical Languages Work deals with the reading and writing of Hebrew and Greek. Emphasis is also given on the pronunciation of the languages. The author points out that the written form of language cannot always convey the full meaning of the original oral communication. This is why understand how to…

             Peter James Silzer and Thomas John Finely provide a wonderful guide on learning Hebrew and Greek. In chapter one we are given five key characteristics of language. These key characteristics help us to grasp a greater understanding of our need to learn the Biblical languages.                 The first characteristic of language is systems. Every…

The term ‘canon’ basically refers to the list of books that make up scripture. In other words, these are the books that are seen as worthy of being included in the sacred writings we know as the scriptures. In earlier times of church history the word ‘canon’ also referred to a ‘rule of faith.’ These…

The Defense of the Faith is a classic work by Cornelius Van Til. Van Til was born in Grootegast, the Netherlands in 1895. He lived until 1987. Van Til was a professor of apologetics at the Westminister Theological Seminary. He comes from a reformed view of theology. However, whether you are a reformed theologian or…

Always Ready was written by Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen. Dr. Bahnsen was born in 1948 and went home to be with the Lord in 1995. He was an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, author of numerous books, renowned conference speaker, and an excellent public debater. The book was edited by Robert R. Booth.…