Can we be assured that the writings of the New Testament are accurate, and do we know with certainty that the New Testament canon is complete? The question is deeply meaningful and carries eternal consequences, because to trust and obey God, it is imperative to be one hundred percent sure that you have God's words. The biblical canon can be defined as follows: “The canon is the list of all the books that belong to the Bible” (Grudem, 54). Additionally, the New Testament canon begins with the apostolic writings, because the apostles received special help from the Holy Spirit in recalling and interpreting the words and teachings of Jesus (John 14:26; 16:13-14). Thus, the holders of the apostolic office claimed to possess the power to speak and write words equivalent to the Old Testament, meaning that these words were the words of God. Peter, for example, asserted that lying to an inspired apostle was equivalent to lying to the Holy Spirit and to God (Acts 5:3-4). Peter also emphasized the need to memorize the words of the Lord and Savior spoken by the apostles (2 Peter 3:2). Furthermore, the apostle Paul claimed that the genesis of his revelations was the Holy Spirit and that he transmitted them "not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words” (1 Cor. 2:13). Likewise, Paul declared his writings to be the commandments of the Lord (1 Cor. 14:37). Peter also testified that Paul's writings were divinely relayed, "as also in his letters, speaking of these things, which are things difficult to understand." understand that the ignorant and the unstable distort, as they also do the rest of the Scriptures” (2nd Peter 3:16). The word translated "scriptures" here is graph, and it is used 51 times in the New Testament, and each time it refers to the Old Testament. Thus, Peter places the Pauline writings on an equal footing with the Old Testament chart. Likewise, Paul employs the same logic when he advises his young apprentice Timothy about the double honor of elders: "For the Scripture says, 'You shall not muzzle the ox while it is threshing,' and 'The worker is worthy of his salary » » (1st Tim.