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Questions Week 12, Day 7

by David Joynt on July 22, 2017


 

2 TIMOTHY 3:14-17

 

 

Finally, I trust the Bible because I’ve researched its formation and transmission. No other ancient book is nearly so well authenticated. Most great philosophical treatise survived in a small number of versions from a few locations. We have thousands of copies of the scriptural corpus from vastly separated areas, and yet our texts agree in form and in detail. From an external and critical perspective, the book we have today has been faithfully passed along with immense accuracy and respect. We can trust the Bible!

 

 

Has this week increased your sense of wonder as you read God’s word?

 

 

Can you affirm what Paul says today about scripture?

 

FAMILY TIME—

Why do you use and enjoy the particular translation of the Bible which you have as your own?

Pray that God will use the Bible to speak to you and shape you.

 

 

 

Tags: bible, authenticated

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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