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NASB | Malachi 4:6 "He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Malachi 4:6 "He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers [a reconciliation produced by repentance], so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse [of complete destruction]." [Luke 1:17] |
Bible Question:
How then do we know when God stopped speaking through the Prophets and when he started again? In other words hwo do we rule out the Apocrypha as being scripture. Thanks! |
Bible Answer: Hi Texas, That's a good question. You have 2 separate but related issues. The Intertestamental Period (When Prophets stopped) and the issue of the Canonicity of the Bible. 1. The 400 Years between the prophecy of Malachi and the advent of Christ are frequently described as "silent", but were in fact crowded with activity. Although no inspired prophet arose in Israel during those centuries, and the OT was regarded as complete, events took place which later gave Judaism its disinct ideology and prepared the way for the coming of Christ. 2. DEFINITION OF CANONICITY "If the Scriptures are indeed inspired by God then a significant question arises: Which books are inspired? Historically, it was important for the people of God to determine which books God had inspired and which ones were recognized as authoritative. The word canon is used to describe the inspired books. The word comes from the Greek kanon and probably also from the Hebrew qaneh, signifying a “measuring rod.” The terms canon and canonical thus came to signify standards by which books were measured to determine whether or not they were inspired. It is important to note that religious councils at no time had any power to cause books to be inspired, rather they simply recognized that which God had inspired at the exact moment the books were written. Jews and conservative Christians alike have recognized the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament as inspired. Evangelical Protestants have recognized the twenty-seven books of the New Testament as inspired. Roman Catholics have a total of eighty books because they recognize the Apocrypha as semicanonical." [The Moody Handbook of Theology] Protestants generally reject the Apocrypha as inspired scripture fro the following reasons: 1. The apocryphal books were not a part of the OT of Jesus and the early Church. While the apocrypha was known to Jesus and His disciples, they never quote from it as authoritative Scripture. 2. Ancient Jewish writers who used the Greek Bible, notably Philo and Josephus, were aquainted with the Apocrypha but never quote it as scripture. 3. Church Fathers, who were familiar with the Hebrew canon, clearly distinguish between canonical and apocryphal writings. 4. The apocryphal books were never declared to be authoritative Scripture until the Council of Trent (A.D. 1546). 5. Most readers (and scholars) feel that the apocryphal books represent a lower level of writing than that of the canonical Scriptures. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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