Dr. James White speaks on the rich history of Scriptural manuscripts. The New Testament text has the highest attestation of any ancient document in history. Despite the history of the canon and circulation of Scripture to reveal it has not been altered as a controlled text, it is important for one to know canon as supernatural item. Dr. White calls the canon an artifact of revelation. You see there are two types of canon. There is the ontological canon. The Canon that is known to God because all that is theopneustos has been determined from all eternity. And, the canon as we have seen it in the 66 books of the Bible. So there is canon as God knows it, the process of canon in the OT and NT times as writers penned God’s Word for a millennium even when they didn’t know it, and then there is canon as officially recognized and church unity was reached regarding it. God has not only given but preserved His Word to this very day.
