Tabletalk Magazine, October 2008: The Canonicity of Scripture

Overview

For more than thirty years, Tabletalk has existed as a magazine for laymen. Generally speaking, laymen receive either very little instruction in the weightier matters of the faith, or the instruction is too academic, thereby making the material largely inaccessible to average laymen. This is the reason Tabletalk exists — to bridge the gap between these two poles, to explain to the people of God important, biblical doctrines and events while admonishing them toward holy living.

For this reason, we will continue to focus on significant issues of the Christian faith, like, for example, how it is that the church came into possession of God’s Word, the Holy Bible. This is the theme of the October 2008 issue of Tabletalk, which intends to explore for its readers the basic questions surrounding the formation of the canon of Scripture, with hopes of encouraging them to cherish God’s Word to His people.

Contributors include R.C. Sproul along with Charles E. Hill, Keith A. Mathison, Stephen J. Nichols, Robert W. Oliver, David Osborne, R.C. Sproul Jr., Randall Van Meggelen, Robert I. Vasholz, Gene Edward Veith. Tabletalk features articles about topics central to the Christian faith and daily, in-depth Bible studies.

The 2008 Bible studies examines the gospel of Matthew and the Redeemer who saves His people from their sins.