1. 1 Timothy | 2 Timothy | Titus LEGITIMATE SCRIPTURE?
The Canon of Scripture
1 Timothy | 2 Timothy | Titus
LEGITIMATE SCRIPTURE?
External Evidence

2. ? Ancient Testimony Who would be a better judge of AUTHORSHIP? 1st 3rd
2nd
20th ?
Contemporary Testimony
Skeptical Criticism

3. Three Witnesses Irenaeus (A.D. 120-202) ~A.D. 180, Against Heresies:
“The blessed apostles, then, having founded and built up the Church, committed into the hands of Linus the office of the episcopate. Of this Linus, Paul makes mention in the Epistles to Timothy.”
(Book 3, 3:3; cf. 2 Timothy 4:21)

4. Three Witnesses Irenaeus (A.D. 120-202) ~A.D. 180, Against Heresies:
“…as Paul also says, ‘A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.’”
(Book 3, 3:4; cf. Titus 3:10, 11)

5. Three Witnesses
Polycarp (A.D ) ~A.D. 120, Epistle to the Philippians:
“‘But the love of money is the root of all evils.’ Knowing, therefore, that ‘as we brought nothing into the world, so we can carry nothing out,’ let us arm ourselves with the armour of righteousness; and let us teach, first of all, ourselves to walk in the commandments of the Lord”
(chapter 4:1; cf. 1 Tim. 6:7, 10; 2 Cor. 6:7)

6. Three Witnesses
Polycarp (A.D ) ~A.D. 120, Epistle to the Philippians:
“Knowing then that God is not mocked, we ought to walk worthily of His commandment and His glory.”
(chapter 5:1; cf. Gal. 6:7)

7. Three Witnesses
Polycarp (A.D ) ~A.D. 120, Epistle to the Philippians:
“In like manner deacons should be blameless in the presence of His righteousness, as deacons of God and Christ and not of men; not calumniators, not double-tongued, not lovers of money, temperate in all things, compassionate, diligent, walking according to the truth of the Lord who became a minister (deacon) of all.”
(chapter 5:2; cf. 1 Tim. 3:8; Matt. 2o:28)

8. Three Witnesses
Polycarp (A.D ) ~A.D. 120, Epistle to the Philippians:
“For if we be well pleasing unto Him in this present world, we shall receive the future world also, according as He promised us to raise us from the dead, and that if we conduct ourselves worthily of Him we shall also reign with Him, if indeed we have faith.”
(chapter 5:2; cf. 2 Tim. 2:12)

9. Three Witnesses
Polycarp (A.D ) ~A.D. 120, Epistle to the Philippians:
“I am greatly grieved for Valens, who was once a presbyter among you, because he so little understands the place that was given him [in the Church]. I exhort you, therefore, that ye abstain from covetousness, and that ye be chaste and truthful. ‘Abstain from every form of evil.’”
(chapter 11:1; cf. 1 Thess. 5:22)

10. Three Witnesses
Polycarp (A.D ) ~A.D. 120, Epistle to the Philippians:
“For if a man cannot govern himself in such matters, how shall he enjoin them on others? If a man does not keep himself from covetousness, he shall be defiled by idolatry, and shall be judged as one of the heathen. But who of us are ignorant of the judgment of the Lord? ‘Do we not know that the saints shall judge the world?’ as Paul teaches.”
(chapter 11:2; cf. 1 Cor. 6:2)

11. Three Witnesses
Polycarp (A.D ) ~A.D. 120, Epistle to the Philippians:
“But I have neither seen nor heard of any such thing among you, in the midst of whom the blessed Paul laboured, and who are commended in the beginning of his Epistle. For he boasts of you in all those Churches which alone then knew the Lord; but we [of Smyrna] had not yet known Him.”
(chapter 11:3; cf. Philippians 1:1-11)

12. Three Witnesses
Polycarp (A.D ) ~A.D. 120, Epistle to the Philippians:
“I am deeply grieved, therefore, brethren, for him (Valens) and his wife; to whom may the Lord grant true repentance! And be ye then moderate in regard to this matter, and “do not count such as enemies,” but call them back as suffering and straying members, that ye may save your whole body. For by so acting ye shall edify yourselves.”
(chapter 11:4; cf. 2 Thess. 3:15)

13. Three Witnesses
Polycarp (A.D ) ~A.D. 120, Epistle to the Philippians:
“For I am persuaded that ye are well trained in the sacred writings, and nothing is hidden from you. But to myself this is not granted. Only, as it is said in these scriptures, Be ye angry and sin not, and Let not the sun set on your wrath. Blessed is he that remembereth this; and I trust that this is in you.”
(chapter 12:1; cf. Psa. 4:4; Eph. 4:26)

14. Three Witnesses
Clement (A.D ) ~A.D. 97, First Epistle To The Corinthians:
“Ye never grudged any act of kindness, being ‘ready to every good work.’”
(chapter 2:7; cf. Titus 3:1)
“And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life” (Phil. 4:3).

15. Three Witnesses
Clement (A.D ) ~A.D. 97, First Epistle To The Corinthians:
“May God, who seeth all things, and who is the Ruler of all spirits and the Lord of all flesh—who chose our Lord Jesus Christ and us through Him to be a peculiar people”
(chapter 58; cf. Titus 2:14)

16. Three Witnesses
Clement (A.D ) ~A.D. 97, First Epistle To The Corinthians:
“By Him the Lord has willed that we should taste of immortal knowledge, “who, being the brightness of His majesty, is by so much greater than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.”
(chapter 36; cf. Heb. 1:3, 4)

17. Three Witnesses
Clement (A.D ) ~A.D. 97, First Epistle To The Corinthians:
“Why are there strifes, and tumults, and divisions, and schisms, and wars among you? Have we not [all] one God and one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And have we not one calling in Christ? Why do we divide and tear to pieces the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and have reached such a height of madness as to forget that ‘we are members one of another?’”
(chapter 46; cf. Eph. 4:4-6, 25; Jas. 4:1)

18. Clement Quotes from Romans, 1 Corinthians, 1 Peter frequently
Quotes from the gospels, Titus, Hebrews, Ephesians and James

19. Problem
If 1, 2 Timothy, Titus, Ephesians, 2 Thessalonians, James, and Hebrews were written in the second century, how can they be quoted in the first?
If these were written by a fraud in the first century, how could it be passed under the noses of those who were contemporaries with the original writers

20. Summary
The snowball effect—when someone decries a bible book, he must also decry these other works as not genuine
Verify
These books verify that the “disputed” books of today’s thinking were not disputed at the time closest to them
These books verify that New testament books were well known and understood to be Scripture

21. We Have Shown
Lesson 1: The canon of the Scriptures was established during the lifetime of the apostles
Lesson 2: The problems raised against these works have very little weight
Lesson 3, 4: The internal and external evidence for these letters is immovable

22. 1 Corinthians 4:6
“Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other.”

23. 1 Corinthians 14:36-38
38 Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached? 37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord. 38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

24. Some were in Christ before Paul was an apostle (Rom. 16:7)
It necessarily infers that they accepted his apostleship (Rom. 1:1; 11:3)
Would only have accepted it based on infallible evidence (cf. 2 Cor. 12:12)
We must also recognize his position and teaching as the words of Christ!
2 Peter 3:15, 16