Podcast
Late Night: Bible Q&A with Mark Vance
The Salt Company - Ames
Speaker: Mark Vance, with Luke Rose
February 5, 2026 · 46 min
Summary
Marcus Vance addresses questions about Bible translations, canonization, apocryphal texts, and textual reliability. He explains how the church recognized divinely authored books rather than invented Scripture, defends the trustworthiness of New Testament manuscripts through multiple eyewitness accounts, and encourages listeners to engage seriously with the biblical text using reliable theological resources.
Highlights
Canonization was not where the Christian church picked the books that go into the Bible. We recognized the books that God wrote.
The Holy Spirit of God who lives inside of you promised to guide his people to truth. You don't have to be freaked out.
Good Christian people can see that differently. One has to say the earth comes with an appearance of age. The other says that the scientific data seems to skew, but at the end, there'll be no final disagreement.