A teacher takes a copy of the Scriptures and expounds them to the students. It is obvious that these miraculously guided men and women would not allow textual variants in the copies of the Scriptures they used. Therefore, it is evident that there were thousands of totally correct copies of the 27 New Testament books in the first century. Summary The New Testament canon was established by the miraculous gifts of the first century. The modern canon is established by considering the internal evidence in the books.
Internal evidence is of three types.
The first type of evidence is internal consistency with other canonical books. The third type of evidence is a statement by a prophet that a certain book was Scripture. End Notes 1. One difference is that the Roman Catholic Church claims that miracles continue today.