We need to check our chronological snobbery.

That's what one colleague of mine called it, and I think it's so appropriate.

We have this idea that if it's not new, if it's not understandable to me and my scientific,

Western, modern mindset, then everybody else previous to me in the historic timeline was an idiot,

and they had no idea what they were doing, what they were communicating, what they were writing down.

Hello, friends, and welcome back to Verity Podcast. My name is Felicia Masonheimer, your host,

the founder of every woman a theologian, and the founder of Verity Podcast, which you are listening to or watching right now.

I'm so glad you're here. You're jumping into the very end, the last episode of our beginner believer series.

We have almost 20 episodes in this series, and it has been a delight to walk this road with you,

no matter where you are at in your journey with God. Today, we're going to be talking about

the Bible. Why can we trust that the Bible is the Word of God? I want to tell you that this is

something I personally wrestled with about four years ago.

I was really thinking through what does it mean to believe in Jesus Christ?

And why do I stake my life and the lives of others through the work that I do on the authenticity of what this man

said. I have this Bible that tells me who he was and what he did and tells me that he's the

fulfillment of a promise made thousands of years ago. But how can I trust that that is true?

Those questions led me on a journey to digging deep into the history of the canon of Scripture.

The word canon is a word that means measure.

And when we use the word canon, C-A-N-O-N in regard to a group of historical, spiritual books, what we're saying is that those

books are the measure of what is true for a specific religious worldview. And in Christianity,

the Bible is the canon of scripture. But four years ago, my question was, how do I know that I know that this really

is the word of God? I know what I've been taught. I know all of the truths about the Bible. I even

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