The Documents of the New Testament

• Originally written in Greek
  • Interlinear of Ephesians 4
  • A site for those who don’t know Greek but want to see what it says: interlinearbible.org
  • Why did God choose Greek and not Hebrew?
• None of the original documents survived
  • 5000–6000 copies are available
  • Amazing agreement
  • types of document
  • How they were transmitted
• So who decided which books were in and which were out?
  • The Canon
  • Prophetic Authority in the New Covenant—the Spirit-filled community.