How We Got Our Bible

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 Have you ever wondered how the Bible came down to us?  These articles reflect the conservative and traditional viewpoint.  The critical "modernist" approach will be dealt with in the "Apologetics" area.

Six Crucial Steps

Introduction  
Revelation  the original message from God
Scripture  recording the message
Canon  collecting the inspired texts
Preservation  keeping the original language text available over time
Translation  rendering the original revelation into other languages
Interpretation  making sense of the Bible we have and read

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A Ministry of Severn Christian Church (Severn, Maryland)

Unless otherwise noted, all material produced by Charles E. McCoy

All Scripture citations/quotations from the New American Standard Bible

To send a question to Chuck: chuck@severnchristian.org