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NASB | Acts 20:7 ¶ On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul began talking to them, intending to leave the next day, and he prolonged his message until midnight. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 20:7 ¶ Now on the first day of the week (Sunday), when we were gathered together to break bread (share communion), Paul began talking with them, intending to leave the next day; and he kept on with his message until midnight. |
Bible Question:
Somebody asked this on another forum I'm on. Does anbody have any good answers? If the men who wrote the Bible were God-inspired, why can't others be God-inspired as well? That is an excellent question...and I'm VERY surprised that none of the Christians here have responded. How about it folks? |
Bible Answer: You wrote: "If the men who wrote the Bible were God-inspired, why can't others be God-inspired as well?" Because God didn't inspire them. Only the books of the Old and the New Testaments are "God-breathed." (2 Timothy 3:16-17) While other Christian books may be accurate and useful works, they do not consist of "new revelation" and are not infallible (i.e. incapable of being wrong) but rather serve as reflection and commentary on the inspired works. The same can be said of good preaching. Good preachers correctly interpret and apply what God has inspired (the Scriptures), but they do not add to Scripture or mainatin any sense of being infallible. If we start claiming that excellent books written in the course of church history are "God-breathed," then in effect what we are saying is that the canon of Scripture is not closed. The only works that are declared to be standards for faith and practice are the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments, and with them God's self-revelation is complete. --Joe! |