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<div class="head">The Doctrine of Revelation</div>
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<div class="subhead">Questions about the Bible</div>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi267.html">What Is the Bible?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi268.html">Why Is Important to Consider the Claims of the Bible?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi269.html">Does the Bible Have a Unique Makeup?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi270.html">What Special Terms Does the Bible Use to Describe Itself?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi271.html">Why Are the Two Divisions of the Bible Called the Old and New Testament?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi272.html">Why Are the Books of the Bible Placed in a Particular Order?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi273.html">Why Is the Bible Divided into Chapters and Verses?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi274.html">What Symbols Does the Bible Use to Describe Itself?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi276.html">Does the Bible Claim to Be the Word of God?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi277.html">How Do We Know the Bible Is the Word of God?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi278.html">Why Do We Need a Written Revelation from God?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi279.html">How Is the Term Revelation Used in Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi368.html">What Is the Doctrine of Revelation?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi369.html">Does It Make Sense That God Would Reveal Himself?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi370.html">What Is General Revelation?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi371.html">How Has God Revealed Himself through Unwritten Tradition?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi372.html">How Does Providence Testify to God's Existence?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi373.html">How Does the Human Conscience Reveal God?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi374.html">How Does God's Dealings with Nations Demonstrate His Existence?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi375.html">Does General Revelation Prove That the God of the Bible Exists?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi376.html">What Conclusions Should We Draw about General Revelation?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi377.html">How Has God Revealed Himself through Nature?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi378.html">What Is the Canon of Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi379.html">If God Divinely Inspired Certain Books, Then Should We Expect Them to Be Preserved?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi380.html">Why Didn't God Give a Divinely Inspired List of the Exact Contents of Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi381.html">Who Were the Old Testament Prophets?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi382.html">Were All of the Books of the Old Testament Written by Prophets?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi383.html">How Was the Old Testament Canon of Scripture Put Together?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi384.html">What Was the Extent of the Old Testament Canon among the People <br>Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi385.html">Why Is There a Threefold Division of the Hebrew Canon? (Law, Prophets, Writings)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi386.html">Was the Hebrew Canon Determined after the Time of Christ? (The Council of Jamnia)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi387.html">Does the New Testament Quote the Old Testament as Authoritative Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi388.html">Did the New Testament Recognize a Completed Old Testament Canon of Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi389.html">Who Were the New Testament Prophets?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi390.html">Apart from the New Testament, What Other Historical Evidence Exists <br>for the Old Testament Canon?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi391.html">What Is the Old Testament Apocrypha?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi392.html">What Are the Contents of the Various Books of the Old Testament Apocrypha?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi393.html">What Is the History of the Old Testament Apocrypha?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi394.html">Why Does the Roman Catholic Church Accept the Books <br>of the Old Testament Apocrypha as Holy Scripture?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi395.html">Why Were the Books of the Old Testament Apocrypha Rejected as Holy Scripture <br>by the Protestants?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi396.html">Did the Sadducees Have a Different Old Testament Canon than the Rest of Judaism?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi397.html">Why Was the Authority of Certain Old Testament Books Questioned?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi398.html">What Were the Non-Canonical Books That Were Mentioned in the Old Testament?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi399.html">What Are Some of the Inadequate Reasons Why a Book Would Be <br>Part of the Old Testament Canon?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi400.html">What Was the Earliest Writing That Was Put into the Old Testament Canon?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi401.html">What Criteria Were Used to Recognize Which Books Belonged in the Old Testament?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi402.html">Why Should the Historical Background of the Bible Be Studied?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi405.html">Is It Important That the Bible Is Historically Accurate?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi406.html">What Is the Role of Archaeology in Establishing the Reliability of the Bible?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi407.html">Has the Bible Ever Proved the Critics Wrong?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi408.html">Does the Bible Honestly Portray Its Characters?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi409.html">Were the New Testament Writers Qualified as Witnesses?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi410.html">When Were the Four Gospels Written?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi411.html">What Mistakes Do Bible-Believers Make in the Area of the Authority of Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi412.html">What Are the Some Non-Biblical Views toward Ultimate Authority?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi413.html">What Does the Bible Have to Say about Its Own Authority?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi414.html">Does the Bible Ever Appeal to Human Reason as a Source of Authority?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi415.html">In What Sense Is the Bible the Inspired Word of God?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi416.html">What Is Meant by the Verbal Plenary Inspiration of Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi417.html">To What Extent Is the Bible Authoritative?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi419.html">Don't Some Translations of 2 Timothy 3:16 Seem to Limit the Bible's Authority?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi420.html">How Did God Speak through the Biblical Authors?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi421.html">What Is the Doctrine of Inerrancy?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi422.html">What Are Some Important Clarifications to the Doctrine of Inerrancy?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi423.html">Does the Bible Testify to Its Own Inerrancy?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi427.html">In What Sense Is the Bible Perfect?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi796.html">Does Inerrancy Exclude All Matters Scientific and Historical? (Limited Inerrancy)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi797.html">Is the Doctrine of Inerrancy Important?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi798.html">What the Difference between the Inerrancy of Scripture <br>and the Infallibility of Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi799.html">What's the Difference between Divine Inspiration and Illumination?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi800.html">Is There a Difference between Revelation and Divine Inspiration?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi801.html">What Are the Parallels between the Writing of Scripture <br>and the First Coming of Jesus Christ?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi802.html">Is It Logical to Think That God Would Communicate to Humanity?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi803.html">How Does the Apostle Paul Testify to the Accuracy of the Four Gospels</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi804.html">Is the Book of Acts Historically Accurate?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi805.html">Are the Four Gospels Historically Accurate?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1186.html">Is Human Language a Sufficient Means of Communication <br>between God and Humankind?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1187.html">To Whom Was the Bible Written?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1188.html">Is Human Language a Sufficient Means of Communication <br>between God and Humankind?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1189.html">Are There Other Written Sources of Religious Truth Apart from the Bible?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1190.html">Why Do Some Argue the Bible Is a Result of a <br>Religious Evolutionary Process? (History of Religion)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1191.html">If God Was behind the Writing of a Book, Then What Should We Expect from It?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1192.html">What Power Does the Bible Have to Change Lives? (Animation)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1193.html">What Is the Clarity of Scripture? (Perpescuity)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1194.html">Because the Scripture Is Clear Does This Mean Everything Can Be Easily Understood?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1195.html">What Is the Sufficiency of Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1196.html">What Is Special Revelation?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1197.html">Are All Parts of the Bible Special Revelation?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1198.html">What Are Some of the Purposes for Special Revelation?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1199.html">In What Special Ways Has God Revealed Himself to Humanity?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1200.html">Does Scripture Record Everything That God Has Revealed to Humanity?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1201.html">How Has God Personally Revealed Himself to People?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1202.html">What Is Propositional Revelation?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1203.html">What Is Progressive Revelation?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1204.html">What Conclusions Can We Make about Divine Revelation?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1205.html">Why Did Some Early Christians Assume the Books of the Old Testament Apocrypha <br>Were Holy Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1206.html">What Are the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha? (Enoch, Jubilees)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1207.html">What Can We Conclude about the Old Testament Canon?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1208.html">What Were the Various Sources of Authority for the First Christians?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1209.html">What Do We Learn from the New Testament Itself about <br>the Need for a New Testament Canon?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1210.html">Does the New Testament Ever Quote Itself as Authoritative Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1211.html">Does Each Book of the New Testament Claim to Be the Authoritative Word of God?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1212.html">What Happened after the Apostolic Era That Brought about the Need <br>for a New Testament Canon?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1213.html">What Happened Historically to Cause the Twenty-Seven Books of the New Testament <br>to Be Recognized as Scripture?</a>
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<li style="height:35"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1214.html">What Are Some of the Differences between the Recognition of <br>the Old Testament Canon and the Recognition of the New Testament Canon?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1215.html">What Criteria Were Used to Recognize Which Books <br>Belonged in the New Testament Canon?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1216.html">What Minimal Factors Should Be Expected of a Book That Is to Be <br>Included in the New Testament Canon?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1217.html">What Do Early Bible Translations Tell Us about the Extent <br>of the New Testament Canon?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1218.html">Why Should the Present New Testament Books Be Accepted as Authoritative Writings?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1219.html">Why Was the Authority of Certain New Testament Books Questioned? <br>(The Antilegomena)</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1220.html">Does the New Testament Quote as Scripture Writings <br>That Are Not Present in the Bible?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1221.html">Were There Some Divinely Authoritative Writings <br>That Were Not Included in Holy Scripture? (Other Letters from Paul)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1222.html">Were Certain Books Left Out of the New Testament Canon?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1223.html">What Are the New Testament Pseudepigrapha? (The Gospel of Thomas)</a>
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<li style="height:40"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1224.html">What about Books That Have Recently Surfaced <br>Which Claim to Add Firsthand Details to the New Testament? <br>(The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, the Archko Volume, the Lost Books of the Bible)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1225.html">What Is Canon Criticism?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1226.html">Is It Possible That Someone Other than the Stated Author Wrote <br>One or More of the Biblical Books? (Pseudonymous Writing)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1227.html">Has God Revealed Anything Further to Humanity since the First Century?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1228.html">Can Anything Be Added to the Bible Today?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1229.html">Does Revelation 22:18-19 Teach That Nothing More Can Be Added to Scripture?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1230.html">Did the Roman Catholic Church Have the Right to Decide <br>Which Books Belong in the New Testament Canon?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1231.html">Can We Be Confident That the Correct Books Are in the Bible?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1232.html">What Conclusions Can Be Made about the Historical Accuracy of the New Testament?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1233.html">Can Revelation, Divine Inspiration, and Illumination Act Together?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1234.html">Is Every Statement of the Bible True?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1235.html">Are Some Parts of the Bible More Authoritative than Others?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1236.html">What about All the Trivial Issues Which the Bible Covers?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1237.html">What about the Morally Repugnant Stories That Are Recorded in the Bible?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1238.html">Did the Biblical Writers Always Understand They Were Recording the Word of God?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1239.html">What Was Jesus' View of the Old Testament?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1240.html">How Did Jesus' View His Own Teaching?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1241.html">What Was Jesus' View of the New Testament?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1242.html">Why Are the Writings of the Apostle Paul Considered to Be Divinely Authoritative?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1243.html">Were Some of the Biblical Books Actually Written by a Scribe <br>Rather than by the Named Author? (Amanuensis)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1244.html">Should the Written Scripture Be Our Final Source of Authority?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1245.html">What Are Some Inadequate Theories of the Bible's Authority?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1246.html">Was the Bible Dictated by God to Humanity? (Mechanical Dictation)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1247.html">What Is the Partial Inspiration Theory? (The Bible Contains the Word of God)</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1248.html">What Is Dynamic Theory of the Bible's Authority? <br>(Divinely Inspired Thoughts Not Words)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1249.html">What Is Natural Inspiration? (Intuition Theory)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1250.html">What Is the Illumination Theory of the Authority of Scripture?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1251.html">What Is the Encounter View of the Bible's Authority? (Barthian, Neoorthodox)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1252.html">What Is the Mythological View of the Bible's Authority?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1253.html">What Conclusions Can We Make about the Bible's Authority?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1258.html">What Specific Objections Have Been Made against Inerrancy?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1259.html">Aren't There Examples of Demonstrable Errors in the Bible?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1260.html">Did Certain Bible Doctrines Change over Time?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1261.html">Did Paul Make a Distinction between His Words and God's Words? (1 Corinthians 7:12)</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1262.html">Since the Term Inerrancy Means Scientific Precision, <br>Does the Bible Really Teach Inerrancy?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1263.html">Are There Grammatical Errors in Scripture?</a>
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<li class="li2"><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1264.html">Did God Accommodate Himself to the Ignorance of the Times? <br>(The Accommodation Theory)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1265.html">How Can the Bible Be Inerrant since Human Beings Are Not?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1266.html">Don't the Missing Autographs Disprove Inerrancy?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1267.html">Aren't There Mistakes in the Various Copies of the Bible?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1268.html">Hasn't Modern Science Refuted an Inerrant Bible?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1269.html">Why Don't the New Testament Writers Quote the Old Testament Word for Word?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1270.html">Does Inerrancy Cause Worship of the Bible? (Bibliolatry)</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1271.html">Aren't There Too Many Qualifications to the Definition of Inerrancy?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1272.html">Are Many Statements of Scripture outside the Realm of Being Inerrant?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1273.html">Since All Bible Translations Are Imperfect How Can We Speak of an Inerrant Bible?</a>
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<li><a href="./faq/nbi/nbi1274.html">Did Jesus Believe the Scriptures Were without Error?</a>
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