3. 2 Peter 3:15-16: Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of

4. these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

5. 1 Timothy 5:17-18: The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, "Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain," and "The worker deserves his wages."

6. Luke 10:7: Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

7. New Testament Matthew A.D. 50-60 Mark Luke A.D. 60-61 John A.D. 80-90
Acts
A.D. 62
Romans
Paul
A.D. 56
1 Corinthians
A.D. 55
2 Corinthians
A.D
Galatians
A.D

8. New Testament Ephesians Paul A.D. 60-62 Philippians Colossians
1 Thessalonians
A.D. 51
2 Thessalonians
A.D
1 Timothy
A.D
2 Timothy
A.D
Titus
Philemon

9. New Testament Hebrews ? A.D. 67-69 James A.D. 44-49 1 Peter Peter
1 John
John
A.D
2 John
3 John
Jude
A.D
Revelation
A.D

10. New Testament Validity
Author
When Written
Earliest Copy
Interim Time Span
No. of Copies
Plato – Greek
(Tetralogies) BC
900 AD
1,200 yrs 7
Herodotus – Greek
(History) BC
1,300 yrs 8
Ceasar – Roman
(The Gallic Wars) BC
1,000 yrs  10
Aristotle – Greek BC
1,100 AD
1,400 yrs 49
Homer - Greek
(Iliad)
900 BC
400 BC
500 yrs    
643
New Testament –
Greek
49-96 AD
130 AD
35 yrs
24,000

11. New Testament Critical Events Form Writers Date Original Manuscripts
Written on Papyrus, Parchment, etc. 10
Greek
44-96 A.D.
Justin Martyr
Recognized the 'Memoirs of the Apostles‘
with the Old Testament prophets 
150 A.D.
Emperor Constantine
Constantine takes control of the Roman Empire and because of victory at Rome makes Christianity the State religion
A.D.

12. New Testament Critical Events Form Writers Date Bishop Athenasius
Identified 27 books of the New Testament - today recognized as the canon of scripture
315 A.D.
Council of Nicea
Convened by Constantine
Declared the equality of the Father and Son
324 A.D.
Vulgate
Based on Septuagint and Greek New Testament letters
Jerome
Latin
382 A.D.
The official translation for the Roman Catholic Church
Council of Hippo (AD 393) and the Council of Carthage (AD 397) affirmed the same 27 books as authoritative
A.D.

13. New Testament Critical Events Date John Wycliffe First English Bible
Died 1384-declared a heretic-body exhumed and burned
A.D.
Johannes Guttenberg
Invented the Printing Press
Gutenberg Bible - Latin publication
1440 A.D.
Desiderius Erasmus
Greek New Testament - Parallel to Latin
1516 A.D.
Synchronized the Greek and the Latin traditions of the New Testament 

14. 83%
12%

15. <10 %
12%

16. Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
1517 A.D Theses against Catholic abuses: indulgences
A.D.
Translated the Bible to common German
from Erasmus' Greek NT
William Tyndale
"Unlicensed" translation from Hebrew and Greek to English
mass produced
A.D.
Strangled and burned at the stake
Council of Trent
Roman Catholic Church - decrees on
self-reform and doctrine 
 1545 to 1563 A.D.
Declared the Vulgate reliable
Affirmed the Apocrypha as canonical

17. Protestant Reformation
The Geneva Bible
1st English Bible with numbered verses
1560 A.D.
Relied on much of the work of Tyndale
The King James Bible
Originally with the Apocrypha - officially removed in 1885
1611 A.D.
Relied on the work of William Tyndale: 84% of the NT and 75% of the OT
Robert Aitken's Bible
The First English Language Bible (KJV) Printed in America
1782 A.D.
Noah Webster's Bible
Famous for his Dictionary; printed his own revision of the KJV
1833 A.D.

18. Protestant Reformation
American Standard Version (ASV)
First Major American Revision of the KJV
1901 A.D.
Revised Standard
Version (RSV)
Revision of the 1901 ASV
-- more highly criticized
1952 A.D.
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Modern and accurate Word for Word English translation
1971 A.D.

19. Protestant Reformation
New International Version (NIV)
Modern Phrase for Phrase English translation
1973 A.D.
New King James Version (NKJV)
Modern English with the original style of the KJV
1982 A.D.
English Standard Version (ESV)
Bridged the gap between the NASB accuracy and the NIV readability
2002 A.D.

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