What New Testament Books are Relevant to Christians?
Much as I have treated the whole New Testament as being relevant to Christians, yet some people among those who hold an “ultradispensational” theology propose that certain books in the New Testament should not be applied to Christians. There are some who propose that the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) should be cut out. There are those who go further and propose that other books should be cut out of the Christian life, like James, Jude, Hebrews and some go on to cut out John’s writings and Peter’s, even eliminating the whole New Testament, including what Jesus said, except for Paul’s writings. In this paper I would like to consider whether such an idea has any merit from a Biblical standpoint. And by “Biblical” I mean whether such an idea is internally consistent with what the whole Bible says. I will presume that none of the writers of the Bible were heretics teaching false doctrine. And there is nothing in the Bible where such accusations of heresy were made between the wr
