Discalced Baptist

What are the holy Scriptures? As answered in my previous post  asking this question, I stated that the Old and New Testaments, as found in the Protestant Bible, are the only infallible rule of faith and obedience. But how exactly did we come to obtain these? In this post, I will seek to establish, in brief, the Old Testament canon. The Old Testament did not come down out of the sky on some golden plates as a complete and immediate document, but was written by various authors over the span of almost a thousand years, ranging from Moses to Malachi. Also, to speak outright, I do not believe in the 4 different types of authors of the Pentateuch (JLPD), the multiple authors of Isaiah, or any of the other absurd liberal criticisms of the Old Testament, that are founded more upon heretical presuppositions that the Bible couldn't possibly be the Word of God, nor that the Word has been preserved down through the ages for us. People see what they want to see, and their presupp...

The first chapter of the 1689 London Baptist Confession sets the stage for the rest of the confession by establishing what the foundation is for it's doctrine, namely the Holy Scriptures. The first paragraph serves almost like a thesis statement for the rest of the chapter. Having made its point of the certain, infallible rule for faith and obedience, the Confession continues into paragraph 2 of the first chapter by identifying positively what precisely is the holy canon of Scripture. Under the name of Holy Scripture, or the Word of God written, are now contained all the books of the Old and New Testament, which are these: OF THE OLD TESTAMENT: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, The Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Ze...