YT YouTube2Text

YouTube2Text → Transcripts → L215: Systematic Theology 1 S3

L215: Systematic Theology 1 S3 — Transcript

by Every Nation Seminary · 4,718 words · 722 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

Open in transcriber Summarize with AI Download SRT/VTT

Full transcript

0:00[Music]
0:14I just want to actually read through
0:16section 1 so just bear with me I know
0:18you could read this yourself but it'll
0:20set the stage for what we talk about
0:21next
0:22scritch Christian scripture teaches us
0:25that part of God's intention for
0:27creating Humanity was to enter into a
0:29unique communicative loving relationship
0:32with creatures made in his own image the
0:35integrity and privilege of this
0:36relationship on the part of humanity
0:38however depended on our submission to
0:40God's Authority
0:42Genesis reveals the story of humanity's
0:44initial rebellion against God as a quest
0:47for moral autonomy apart from our
0:49Creator and goes on to describe the
0:52calamitous results of rejecting God's
0:53Authority the negative impact of our
0:56initial rebellion affects the entire
0:58human condition including our knowledge
1:00of God in His will ways acts and
1:02purposes sin has corrupted the human
1:05heart which in her break thought was
1:07understood to be the seed of the human
1:08will mind and emotions as the Apostle
1:11Paul recorded human rebellion against
1:13God leads to the suppression of whatever
1:15truth about God is naturally available
1:17to humans resulting in darkened
1:19understanding and still further sin in
1:22spite of this the biblical story reveals
1:24God's unwavering intention to redeem or
1:27recover his fallen creatures and so
1:29still fulfill his good purposes for
1:31Humanity and creation thus the Christian
1:34scripture demonstrates God's ongoing
1:36activity to communicate with sinful
1:38humanity
1:39with the aim of restoring us to
1:41relationship with himself with one
1:42another and with his creation all of
1:45which had been marred due to sin though
1:48sin had corrupted the human heart God's
1:50gracious direct personal revelation of
1:52himself was yet given to select
1:54individuals and eventually to the nation
1:57of Israel with the aim of conveying such
1:59knowledge to all the peoples of the
2:01world central to such communication was
2:04the call for human repentance and
2:06submission to God's rightful loving
2:08Authority as well as of course revealing
2:10God's means by which he would provide
2:12for
2:13the restoration of humanity back into
2:14the full image of God in other words
2:16everything was building up to Jesus by
2:18the way I mentioned Jesus not being
2:20omniscient earlier I'm gonna explain
2:23that but not now I want you to wrestle
2:25with it I know I'm right because the
2:29Bible teaches it so the question is is
2:32why would that be true and how is it
2:35true and in what way is it true and
2:37we'll answer that for sure
2:39when we do the session on the
2:41Incarnation which would come up in a
2:42couple days so I'm not a heretic so it's
2:45just to reassure you see because of the
2:50pervasive corrupting influence of sin
2:52with which the entire human race was and
2:55is afflicted God in His goodness and
2:57according to His purposes deemed it
2:59necessary to preserve his special
3:01communication regarding himself thus
3:04what is commonly called special
3:05revelation was written down and
3:07bequeathed via Israel and later the
3:10Apostolic Church to the entire world as
3:13distinct from general revelation which
3:15is the truth about God which is
3:16potentially available to all humans
3:18through the creation these writings came
3:20to be known as Holy Scripture and
3:22comprise what is known in the Christian
3:24church as the Old and New Testaments in
3:27them God has provided humanity with an
3:29authoritative revelation of himself by
3:32providing us with propositional truth
3:34and by recounting significant divine
3:37acts in relation to humanity in the
3:40unfolding of his purposeful plan of
3:42redemption these acts are not merely
3:45recounted but are divinely interpreted
3:47thus we are provided with an
3:49authoritative revelation of God
3:50including his will ways acts and
3:54purposes none of which would have been
3:56known merely by general revelation in
3:58all of which calls for a human response
4:00of faith repentance and loving
4:03submission to God so that's just the
4:05background story and it's good just to
4:07keep that in mind as we talk about the
4:10Canon so your first fill in the blank
4:12there under Roman numeral 2 the term
4:15Canon literally means rule standard or
4:20norm and consequently always implies
4:24some measure
4:25of corresponding authority in other
4:26words it's the standard by which
4:27something is measured in the Christian
4:30context Canon refers to those books
4:32which have been viewed throughout church
4:35history as being inspired of God and
4:37hence authoritative for the church's
4:40life and practice we'll be talking about
4:42the inspiration and authority of the
4:45Bible in our next session the Christian
4:49Canon consists of 66 books 39 of which
4:52comprised the Old Testament 27 of which
4:54comprised the new it should be noted
4:57that the Christian Old Testament books
4:58are identical to the Jewish Canon of the
5:02present day this having been established
5:04and finalized perhaps by the time of
5:07Jesus's life although there's some
5:09scholars that suggest it was not fixed
5:11until the close of the first century
5:13after in other words Jesus was on the
5:16earth but many scholars believe that the
5:19Old Testament that we have today
5:21basically is identical to the one that
5:23was being used by Jesus and the Apostles
5:25and that it was already a settled issue
5:29but we won't go down that trail much
5:31further I do want to say though that
5:33just in case you didn't know it in case
5:35you're ever reading something and you
5:38might not connect the dots originally
5:411st and 2nd Kings was only one book 1st
5:45and 2nd chronicles was only one book
5:47another thing to keep in mind is that
5:49some of the verse divisions in the
5:52Psalms for example in the Hebrew Bible
5:55are different than our verse divisions
5:57but it doesn't mean anything at the end
5:59of the day in terms of the content you
6:02should be aware that the chapter and
6:03verse divisions for the New Testament
6:06for example didn't even show up until
6:08about a thousand years after Jesus had
6:10already come and gone so those are
6:13arbitrary and interestingly there was a
6:19fella riding a horse in France on a long
6:23trip that was from Marseilles to Leon
6:25and on that horse back trip that's when
6:29he introduced the various divisions
6:32according to what how he thought the
6:34material should be arranged so a little
6:36side note when you study the Bible
6:38try and ignore chapter and verse
6:39divisions because sometimes they're very
6:42important things in a passage coming up
6:45that's in another chapter that has
6:48significant bearing on something in the
6:49previous chapter but if you do daily
6:52devotions you know we're you're only
6:53reading you know like a chapter a couple
6:55chapters at a time you'll miss these
6:57connections and so they're helpful for
7:00referring to the locations of things
7:03they're not always helpful for actually
7:05studying the flow of thought throughout
7:07a particular book of the Bible let us
7:11see there were several major historical
7:14factors which developed in the second
7:16century talking about AD after Jesus
7:19which together contributed to the
7:22delineation of the Canon by the early
7:23church in other words how did the books
7:26that wound up in the New Testament wind
7:28up in the New Testament what were the
7:30criteria that were used by the church to
7:33recognize divinely inspired books and so
7:37we're gonna look at if what the criteria
7:39were and we're going to look at first of
7:41all what were the events that were
7:44happening that pushed the church towards
7:47clearly identifying what's in and what's
7:50out so first historical event see one
7:54here's a fill-in-the-blank here a false
7:57teacher by the name of Marcion that
8:00spelled ma r CI o n this fellow Marcion
8:07founded his own sect and began
8:08congregations throughout the
8:10mediterranean in the second half of the
8:12second century Marcion is said to have
8:15taught that the god of the old testament
8:17was not the same as the god of jesus
8:20christ now where in the world would he
8:22get that idea well it goes back to Greek
8:24philosophy so having been influenced by
8:26Greek philosophy he then took some of
8:29those presuppositions and imposed them
8:33upon the text or in other words he
8:34interpreted the text in such a way that
8:38he saw the God of the Old Testament is
8:40not being consistent with the character
8:42and the nature and the spirit that is
8:44displayed by Jesus in the New Testament
8:47furthermore Marcion rejected numerous
8:50apostolic writings
8:51that were already regarded as sacred
8:54scripture by the rest of the church the
8:57only documents he accepted were Luke and
8:5910 letters from Paul but he even edited
9:03these to remove what he considered to be
9:04late corrupting additions that
9:06introduced Judy izing beliefs into the
9:09text in other words he really saw
9:10problems with the historic Jewish faith
9:13of the Old Testament and he thought that
9:15many of those concepts bled into
9:18documents in the New Testament therefore
9:20rejected a bunch of them and edited some
9:23of them in order to get what he believed
9:25was a pure version of the message that
9:28Jesus brought so because of his
9:31influence in his popularity and because
9:34of his teachings the church needed to
9:37respond a second influencing factor for
9:41why the church actually set out a very
9:44clear list of what books are in and what
9:47books are out of the Canon is in number
9:50two another second century teacher by
9:53the name of and here's fill-in-the-blank
9:54montanus mo n ta and us he led a
10:00movement that elevated prophetic
10:02utterances to an authoritative level
10:04that according to critics of the
10:05movement equal or even surpassed that of
10:08the Apostolic writings that have been
10:10preserved by the churches there are
10:12charismatic movements alive today that
10:16border on this kind of error as well the
10:19montanus also apparently considered
10:21their prophetic utterances to surpass
10:23the authority of the bishops who of
10:26course were viewed by the rest of the
10:28church as the faithful preservers of the
10:31Apostolic teaching so before there was a
10:34clearly delineated New Testament there
10:38were writings that were being preserved
10:41by the church used by the church in the
10:44worship services but also just as
10:47importantly there were humans alive who
10:49had been discipled by the apostles and
10:53so they were faithful preservers of the
10:58message that had been preached by Jesus
11:01that had come through the Apostles to
11:03them
11:04and in turn therefore they also had a
11:08voice for saying how the biblical text
11:12should be understood I'm reading a book
11:15right now
11:15on the oral transmission the oral source
11:20and transmission of biblical truth in
11:22other words before there were any
11:24written documents in the Old Testament
11:26there were oral Oracle's and prophetic
11:29utterances and oral teachings by God's
11:33chosen anointed leaders this is also
11:36true the New Testament Jesus never wrote
11:38anything and all of the New Testament
11:41documents come into being at least
11:43around 20 years after Jesus had actually
11:47been on the earth so the initial
11:49preservation for these cultures was not
11:52written they didn't approach knowledge
11:55learning in the transmission of
11:57information from a text centered
12:00perspective like we do today that
12:03doesn't mean that they failed in being
12:05able to faithfully preserve God's
12:07message it simply means they thought
12:09about it very very differently than we
12:11do today and so these of these bishops
12:14were very very important then because
12:17they were helping preserve orally a
12:19proper understanding of what the written
12:22tax of the New Testament who or what
12:24eventually became the New Testament what
12:27they meant so let's keep going here
12:30the montanus movement grew quickly in
12:33the latter quarter of the second century
12:35and was highly critical of the
12:37mainstream church especially in terms of
12:40its lack of consequent consecration at
12:42least from the viewpoint of the montanus
12:44they thought the rest of the church was
12:46a bunch of compromisers number three
12:50another historical occurrence that
12:53affected the church's sense of need to
12:57mark out a new testament another
13:00movement which came to be labeled
13:02Gnosticism that's your fill in the blank
13:04that spelled GN o stic i SM Gnosticism
13:13Gnosticism challenged the mainstream
13:15Church in regards to the Apostolic
13:16writings it considered
13:18be sacred Gnosticism refers to a broad
13:20range of views that sought to
13:22synchronize Christian beliefs with
13:25various Greek philosophical
13:26presuppositions these presuppositions
13:30were fundamentally dualistic in nature
13:32meaning that they viewed the material
13:35world as essentially corrupt and the
13:40spiritual world as essentially pure
13:42salvation for them consisted in the
13:46liberation of the soul from the body
13:48which of course is antithetical to the
13:51Christian teaching of the Incarnation
13:53and the hope of future bodily
13:56resurrection to support such views
13:59numerous spurious writings you know the
14:02worst furious that means false numerous
14:05furious writings began to appear
14:08claiming to have been written by an
14:10apostle or other early Christian leader
14:12these writings taught Gnostic views
14:15which were presented as having come from
14:18Jesus or from one of the Apostles these
14:22documents are known today as the New
14:24Testament and here's a fill-in-the-blank
14:26pseudepigrapha big names pseudepigrapha
14:30spelled PS e u di p i gr a PHA
14:42pseudepigrapha and that simply is a word
14:45based on greek words that means false
14:48writings false right so think about it
14:51then you've got Marcion who's chopping
14:54out books that were being used by the
14:56church that were written by apostles
14:59you've got the montanus who are
15:01elevating prophecy in such a way that
15:04supposedly it was of higher authority
15:06than what the bishops were teaching or
15:08what was written in the documents that
15:11eventually came to be called the New
15:12Testament and then you've got this whole
15:16other movement of Gnosticism which is
15:19starting to produce other writings that
15:21claim to be either from Jesus or from
15:23the Apostles all of that is causing an
15:26enormous amount of turmoil in the church
15:29and in case you didn't know it this is
15:33actually more dangerous in the long run
15:35to the life of the church than violent
15:37persecution when you look at the
15:40chronology of the New Testament
15:42documents it's very interesting that the
15:45books that are written towards the end
15:48of the first century that wind up in our
15:50New Testament almost all uniformly
15:53expressed deep concern about the rise of
15:56false teaching and that accelerates in
16:00the second century as we just pointed
16:02out here and the church historically has
16:05always been under greater threat from
16:07false teaching than it has been from
16:10violent persecution now personally I
16:12would rather have to battle bad teaching
16:16than to deal with violent persecution
16:19but as a historical fact the church has
16:23done fairly well under persecution all
16:26things considered but it has always
16:29suffered more when bad teaching has come
16:32in and corrupted the church letter D so
16:37in response to all this stuff the church
16:39seeks to identify the limits of the
16:41Christian Canon by considering several
16:44primary criteria for determining whether
16:46a written work should be viewed and
16:49embraced by the church as having divine
16:52authority and is forming the written
16:53revelation of the New Covenant or New
16:56Testament these criteria settled around
17:00four key questions which I've listed
17:03here number one was the work known to
17:06have been written by an apostle that
17:08your fill-in-the-blank apostle or a
17:10close associate of an apostle number two
17:14was the content of was the content of
17:18the work Orthodox that's your fill in
17:20the blank Orthodox in other words is it
17:22does the content fall within the
17:25mainstream teaching that had been passed
17:29down from Jesus to the Apostles to the
17:31bishops and also was consistent with the
17:35teaching that was in other documents
17:37that were already recognized
17:39by the church as inspired and so by
17:44orthodox the church meant that the
17:46content was in agreement as I said with
17:48the mainstream doctrine that was being
17:50promulgated or taught in its liturgy and
17:53its baptismal confessions by the
17:56teaching of the bishops and of course in
17:59the other documents number three was the
18:01work known to be in use among the
18:04churches for regular public reading in
18:06their worship worship is the question
18:08there the churches had recognized the
18:12spiritual value of the Apostolic
18:14writings from the beginning they've been
18:17making copies all along of the text and
18:20they've been circulating them amongst
18:23themselves of course the church spread
18:26over a wide area so not all parts of the
18:28church had copies of all the letters so
18:32there were some documents that wound up
18:34in the New Testament that were known in
18:36certain parts of the Roman Empire but
18:37were not as well known in other parts of
18:39the Roman Empire it wasn't until peace
18:43had essentially come to the church when
18:46Constantine had some kind of a
18:48conversion to the Christian faith and
18:51legalized Christianity and showed a
18:54favorable treatment of the church by the
18:59government it was in that era of the
19:02fourth century that finally every part
19:05of the church throughout the Roman
19:06Empire was able to have good contact and
19:10communication with one another prior to
19:13that time it wasn't always possible one
19:16thing that should be pointed out that's
19:18interesting there are two documents in
19:21particular that did not wind up in the
19:24New Testament but that were widely used
19:27by lots and lots of the churches and
19:29we're considered by many of them to be
19:32just as useful as the other New
19:34Testament documents now I think of
19:36course history and the witness of the
19:39church is right in excluding these
19:41documents but they're still worth
19:43reading today not where we treat them as
19:45having the same authority as being
19:47inspired by God but they are rich in
19:50content one of them is known as
19:52the decay or decay depending on how you
19:55pronounce it
19:56also known as the teaching of the 12 a
19:58document that dates to perhaps around 90
20:01AD and originated perhaps out of the
20:03area around Antioch and another one is
20:07known as the Shepherd of hermas which is
20:09a second century document now both of
20:12these have things in them that at the
20:14end of the day lead us to believe that
20:16they are less than fully inspired of God
20:18but they are important historical
20:21documents that provide windows into the
20:23life of the early church finally number
20:27four the last criteria was was the work
20:31regarded to have been inspired of God
20:33and thus possess spiritually
20:36transformative power in other words did
20:39the church as a whole and did
20:42individuals in the church experience
20:45God's encounter God's revelation God's
20:49power mediated through these particular
20:51documents by 200 ad or C II Common Era
20:57for using the academic designation three
21:01of the church's most prominent
21:02theologians of the time Irenaeus
21:04Tertullian and clement of alexandria
21:07independently bore witness to the fact
21:09that the majority of the documents which
21:11comprise our new testament were already
21:12regarded as being canonical or in other
21:15words inspired of god this agrees with
21:19another list known as the mujer
21:21moratorium Canon which is usually dated
21:24to about 170 ad and there were only a
21:29few documents outside of the core of our
21:32New Testament that wound up then
21:35eventually being recognized by the whole
21:37church as also belonging to the Canon
21:40and reasons for their delayed
21:42acknowledgement by the larger church
21:43probably were that some of the smaller
21:47works were not entirely known to all of
21:50the churches prior to the fourth century
21:51and in the case of Hebrews there was a
21:55question over the authorship you know
21:57who wrote it actually and people still
22:00debate that today revelation was another
22:03book that some people didn't
22:05particularly want to include
22:07but that's probably more because of the
22:09difficulty in dealing with the imagery
22:12and the interpretation of the book but
22:15it's a critically important book to our
22:17New Testament the first known formal
22:20publication of a list of the books that
22:22exactly matches our New Testament
22:23occurred in 367 ad and it appears in a
22:29letter written by Athanasius who's a
22:31very important early church father and
22:35it represented the view of all of the
22:37churches in the eastern part of the
22:38Roman Empire this listing was formally
22:41affirmed just a few years later at the
22:43Council of Carthage which represented
22:46all the churches in the western part of
22:47the Empire and even though this occurred
22:50300 years after the last New Testament
22:53documents were written we have solid
22:56historical evidence from multiple
22:58sources there's lots of letters and
23:00writings by people in the second century
23:02already that indicated that the
23:05overwhelming majority of the writings
23:07which came to be known as our New
23:08Testament were already valued preserved
23:11copied circulated and utilized and
23:13worship alongside the Old Testament in
23:16the life of the church I think the main
23:20thing that we want to think about here
23:21is that it's wrong to think that the
23:23church decided what the Canon was and
23:26it's better to think of it as the church
23:29simply recognized that which God had
23:32given to the church liberal
23:34Protestantism this is under g1 rejects
23:38this historic view and conceives of
23:40Scripture as being at best merely the
23:43product of enlightened human reflection
23:45upon divine encounters and activity they
23:49don't believe that the scriptures are
23:51actually inspired of God one other area
23:54to talk about briefly and then we'll
23:56wrap up here is the Apocrypha how many
24:00of you have ever read parts of the
24:01Apocrypha anybody at all phew ok great
24:04so the Apocrypha is a set of books that
24:10actually appears in the Roman Catholic
24:13and Orthodox churches publications or
24:16printings of the Bible
24:19they refer to them as deuterocanonical
24:22deuterocanonical meaning a second canon
24:26officially they are typically not viewed
24:29as having the same level of authority as
24:33all of the other books that we embrace
24:36that comprise our old and new testaments
24:39and so that's important to point that
24:41out these texts the Apocrypha were
24:45produced by Jewish writers during the
24:49centuries after the Babylonian exile and
24:52before the birth of Jesus one of the
24:55things should be pointed out the term
24:57Apocrypha is sometimes used by scholars
25:02to refer to a larger work of writings
25:04than just the ones that show up in the
25:07Roman Catholic Bible or the Orthodox
25:10Bible although these books were known to
25:13Jews in the first century and they were
25:16highly regarded and studied by Jewish
25:19believers they were not considered by
25:23the Jews of the first century to be
25:25canonical they didn't view them as
25:27having been inspired of God and having
25:30the same divine authority as all of
25:33their other sacred texts which make up
25:35our Old Testament remember I said
25:37earlier that our Old Testament today is
25:39identical to the Old Testament
25:41essentially that was being used by the
25:44Jews in the first century similarly
25:47there's a fella by the name of Jerome
25:48who's very important in the life of the
25:52early church and particularly is
25:53important to the Roman Catholic Church
25:55because he translated the entire Bible
25:59into Latin he travelled over to the
26:02Middle East from the western part of the
26:05Roman Empire out of a desire to do
26:08research in order to better understand
26:11the scriptures and to understand the
26:13historic roots of the church and he was
26:16a very important godly man and he not
26:19only translated the Old Testament and
26:21the New Testament in Latin which by the
26:22way became the basis of the Roman
26:26Catholic translation of the Bible all
26:28the way from the time of Jerome up
26:31through the Middle Ages and even today
26:33still informs Roman Catholic
26:35translations of the Bible but he also
26:38translated the Apocrypha and included it
26:42and attached it to his translation of
26:45the old and new testaments but even
26:46Jerome himself did not consider the
26:50Apocrypha to be divinely inspired so
26:54even though he translated he recognized
26:55its value in terms of the the for doing
26:59historical research and understanding
27:01the development of the Christian faith
27:02he nevertheless didn't view it as being
27:04inspired of God likewise the Protestant
27:07reformers also denied the canonicity of
27:11the entire pact refer even though some
27:14of them many of them considered the
27:16books important for the study of the
27:18development of the Jewish and Christian
27:20faith and finally we want to say that in
27:23addition to the fact that neither the
27:25Jews nor the early church view these
27:27writings as canonical the Reformers
27:30raised additional objections and the
27:33additional objections that they raised
27:34were that the apocryphal books included
27:39historical errors which were known
27:42already in their day and that there were
27:45doctrines that were implicitly taught in
27:48the Apocrypha that were inconsistent
27:51with doctrinal teaching in the rest of
27:54the Bible in fact the whole development
27:56of the doctrine of purgatory relies more
28:00on teachings that come out of the
28:03Apocrypha than actually out of New
28:06Testament texts so that's just one
28:09example and so for that reason the
28:13Reformers said that the Apocrypha should
28:15not be included in the Bible even though
28:18they still have value for research and
28:21study in terms of historical purposes so
28:25in conclusion the 27 books which were
28:29acknowledged by the early church as
28:30being
28:31canonical and thus authoritative have
28:34withstood the test of time being
28:36attested to by the church for now nearly
28:382,000 years now here's the fill in the
28:41blank and I wanted to draw attention to
28:43this No
28:44new books that's your fill-in-the-blank
28:47no new books if they were to be
28:51discovered whether from later eras or
28:55from the Apostolic era can be added to
28:58the Canon given the criteria that was
29:00used by the early church to delimit the
29:03New Testament now there's even if we
29:06found a letter from the Apostle Paul the
29:10say is letter to Laodicea or maybe one
29:14of the letters to Corinth that was lost
29:16even if we found a letter from Paul
29:19according to the criteria that I listed
29:22earlier that the early church used it
29:24should not be added to the Canon now I
29:28won't explain why but it's one of the
29:30discussion questions I want you to think
29:32about why should it not be added to the
29:35Canon based on the criteria that I gave
29:37so that's a possible discussion item and
29:41so we have in the old and new testaments
29:43the writings that have been historically
29:45acknowledged by God's people to be
29:47divinely inspired and consequently
29:49authoritative for the church's faith in
29:50life the point that I simply wanted to
29:53make here was is that there's no
29:55question as to what should be in the
29:58Bible and what should not so sometimes
30:01when you hear about things being found
30:03in fragments and other writings and
30:05things like that that are discovered
30:07that date back to the 3rd or the 4th
30:09century or whatever there's no thought
30:13not even for a moment by any
30:16conservative biblical scholar that these
30:19should be included or that somehow they
30:22undermined some of the teachings of the
30:24Bible or anything like that and even
30:26though I don't have the information in
30:27here I think that you probably know from
30:30another course somewhere along the way
30:32that the documents that we do have are
30:36extremely reliable and it's been said by
30:39Dan Wallis I don't know if you know who
30:41Dan Wallis is he heads up the cutting
30:46edge research institution that has
30:50embarked on a global project to try and
30:53recover and digitize
30:57every single New Testament document
31:00that's in existence around the world
31:01they estimate that there's probably as
31:03many as a thousand more copies of
31:06portions of the New Testament that have
31:08not come to the research community yet
31:11because they're buried away in various
31:13monasteries and churches around the
31:15world but that as all of these documents
31:18continue to be found and compiled and
31:20compared and contrasted with one another
31:22that through the field of textual
31:25criticism we are able to ascertain
31:29somewhere in the neighborhood of around
31:31ninety eight point six percent of the
31:33exact wording of the New Testament down
31:37to every little detail and that for the
31:41minor 1.4 percent which is ambiguous the
31:47ambiguity is so inconsequential it has
31:50absolutely no bearing on any single
31:52teaching of the New Testament
31:54[Music]

About this transcript

This page contains the full transcript of L215: Systematic Theology 1 S3 by Every Nation Seminary, generated from the public captions YouTube serves with the video. The transcript has 4,718 words across 722 segments, with the original timestamps preserved so you can click any line to jump to that moment in the embedded player.

What you can do with it

Use the transcript to take notes, quote the speaker, build a study guide, generate a summary with ChatGPT or Claude via the YouTube Summary tool, or export it as a timed subtitle file with YouTube to SRT. You can also re-open it in the transcriber to choose a caption track available on the video.

Free YouTube transcript tool

YouTube2Text is a free YouTube transcript generator — no signup, no daily limit. Paste any YouTube link and get the full transcript instantly, with timestamps, click-to-jump, caption language selection, AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, or Markdown.