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The Word Given

How a father knows the Bible in his hand is the Word God appointed. Part 1: why these books

By Ken Duffy · September 6, 2026 · 38 min

A son asks his father how he knows. He is not asking whether the Bible is true. He was raised on it and has not yet thought to doubt it. He asks something narrower and harder. Why these books? Who said Matthew is in and Thomas is out? A friend's father, a Catholic, says the church gave us the Bible. A video says Constantine did. A man on the internet says there are four hundred thousand errors in it. The boy is not…

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