out, does Paul claim that the acceptance of a twenty-seven book canon is essential for salvation. Within the NT there are various types of material: historical, doctrinal, parenetic. This varied material is applicable to Christians in different ways, and some of it, not at all. Paul, for example, gives advice concerning the clothing women should wear in public, advice which has little use for eighteenth-century Christians. Much of the content of the NT required no special inspiration. Mark, for example,