basis of faith and practice. In time, the New Testament books were added one by one to the growing canon. Christ’s teaching was saturated with direct quotations and allusions to the Old Testament. He declared it to be final, authoritative, infallible, and irrevocable (Matt. 5:18; John 10:35). The New Testament books are full of references to it. The apostles equated “The Scripture says” with “God says” (Gal. 3:8), identified the word of the prophets with the word of God (Acts 4:24–25; cf. Ps. 2:1;