Introduction   

Revelation that is preserved without deletion or addition is not only logical, but necessary.  If an omnipotent God exists, the possibility of inspiration and preservation of holy message is certainly probable.  When the Lord’s transcendence combines with man’s sin nature a need is formed for written and infallible revelation.  Natural revelation is regularly ignored and special revelation is rejected and nearly impossible to relate to others.  The written word, divinely preserved, is a personal revelation of God’s truth to mankind.  After the introduction of Christ to the kosmos, the Old Testament needed a new body to explain and join the new revelation with the old. The New Testament has been a formed through a process that has been divinely directed in the early church.