“Those first Christians were Jews who believed in Jesus as the Messiah, prophesied to be so centuries before his birth,” Huff said, “and when they believed that, they didn’t cease to become Jews. They weren’t converting to a new religion.”
“The Bible, as we know it, didn’t exist when Jesus walked the earth,” said Huff, “but that’s because Jesus’ followers hadn’t written it down yet. Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John couldn’t have access to something they wrote prior to them writing it.”
Huff then addressed the claim that certain people decided what was in the Bible hundreds of years after the time of Jesus. “With all due respect, the Bible was not compiled hundreds of years later,” he said. “We have Christians reading, quoting, even writing whole commentaries for nearly all of the books of the Bible shortly after these documents were written.” Huff mentioned Clement of Rome as one example.
One problem with the idea that a “pagan emperor,” supposedly Constantine, compiled the Bible by calling the Council of Nicea is that there is “really good evidence” that Constantine stopped being pagan before he called the council.
“But more prominently, we know what happened at the Council of Nicea,” said Huff. “We have and can read the writings of those who were there prior to them going to the council. You can read their writings post-council. You can read the creed they wrote as their conclusion of the council.”
“None of these primary sources documents even a mention of compiling, voting on, or what made the cut concerning the Bible,” Huff said. “And you know why? Because they were and already had been considered authoritative Scripture for centuries.”
“In fact, if you look at the first-hand documents related to the council, you’ll see they quote, reference, and even expound upon Scripture as already bearing the jurisdiction and position of being the inspired Word of God,” Huff explained.
And while Jesus did tell people to follow him, he “also quoted Scripture himself. And in the context of rightly handling the Bible that existed in his day, what we call the Old Testament, he said that no one would live by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God,” said Huff.
“He said that Scripture could not be broken,” Huff continued. “He chastised people because they didn’t know what the Scripture said.”
Huff encouraged his viewers to take Allred’s advice to listen for the truth and to do their own research. “Unfortunately, Adam himself isn’t taking that advice, but I would encourage him to do so,” he said. “This topic is too important to get wrong.”
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