Why 66? Why Christians consider 66 books inspired by God

If you look at The Books of The Bible separately you may find it odd, especially if you're not a Christian; there's one including Law Codes from 2500 years ago, a poem dealing with suffering, and a romantic Song with sexual imagery--what are these doing in The Holy Book? How did they get there? Well their are three reasons we have the Bible that we have today and that other books weren't accepted: (1) Jesus, (2) first century Christians and (3) Christian tradition.

Jesus

Jesus, the head and founder of Christianity was a Jew Who believed in the Jewish scriptures, we know what books He believed in specifically because He often quoted from the Hebrew Bible. In fact more than half of all Jesus's teaching are based off the Hebrew Scriptures. But what books did Jesus believe in? Well, here's a chart:

What Book He used	Reference
Deuteronomy	Luke 4, Matthew 4
Isaiah	Luke 4, Mark 4
Exodus	Matthew 5
Leviticus	Matthew 5
Numbers	Matthew 5
Hosea	Matthew 9, 12
Micah	Matthew 10, Luke 12
Malachi	Matthew 11, Luke 7
Genesis	Matthew 19, Mark 10
Jeremiah	Matthew 21
Psalms	Matthew 21-22, 27, Mark 12,
Daniel	Matthew 24
Zechariah	Matthew 26, Mark 14

 Jonah                                                                         Matthew 12       

The bold ones show the Books that would be accepted solely based on Jesus's words:

Genesis 

Exodus 

Leviticus 

Numbers 

Deuteronomy

Joshua 

Judges 

Ruth 

1 Samuel 

2 Samuel

1 Kings 

2 Kings 

1 Chronicles 

2 Chronicles 

Ezra 

Nehemiah 

Esther 

Job 

Psalms 

Proverbs 

Ecclesiastes

Solomon's Song of Songs 

Isaiah 

Jeremiah

Lamentations 

Ezekiel 

Daniel 

Hosea 

Joel 

Amos 

Obadiah 

Jonah 

Micah 

Nahum

Habakkuk 

Haggai 

Zephaniah 

Zechariah 

Malachi 

The Early Church

The early church (by which I mean the Christian community living between 33 and 100 AD.) discovered that the Hebrew scriptures such as Isaiah (chapter 53) were about Jesus, in making speeches and in their letters they understand certain other books to be inspired by God Himself. 

What Book they used	Reference
Joel	Acts 2
2 Samuel	Acts 2
Joshua	Acts 7
Amos	Acts 7
1 Kings	Acts 7
1 Samuel	Acts 13
Hanukkah	Acts 13
Nehemiah	Romans 10
Job	1st Corinthians 3
Confirms Ezekiel’s visions	Revelations 5

Which means that at the end the first century the following books were accepted as inspired by God (specially The Holy Spirit):

Genesis 

Exodus 

Leviticus 

Numbers 

Deuteronomy

Joshua 

Judges 

Ruth 

1 Samuel 

2 Samuel

1 Kings 

2 Kings 

1 Chronicles 

2 Chronicles 

Ezra 

Nehemiah 

Esther 

Job 

Psalms 

Proverbs 

Ecclesiastes

Solomon's Song of Songs 

Isaiah 

Jeremiah

Lamentations (Assumed because Jeremiah is accepted as a Prophet)

Ezekiel (Assumed because his visions relate to those in Revelations.)

Daniel 

Hosea 

Joel 

Amos 

Obadiah 

Jonah 

Micah 

Nahum

Habakkuk 

Haggai 

Zephaniah 

Zechariah 

Malachi 

At the end of the first century it is unclear that the twenty-seven books of the New Testament were written. Certainly those letters of Paul (an important Christian evangelist), Peter (an Apostle), John (another Apostle) and James (Jesus's human brother) as well as any verifiable records about Jesus would be deemed as sacred, but not necessarily inspired by God in the same sense that God spoke through the Prophet Isaiah for example. 

Christian tradition 

Christian tradition over the next two hundred years would allow the inclusion of Judges, Ruth, Ezra, Esther, Ecclesiastes, Solomon's Song of Songs, Obadiah, Nahum, Haggai, Zephaniah along with the twenty seven books of the New Testament. (Although it is very likely that many Old Testament books were accepted because the early church was mostly Jewish.)

Christians then began to believe that Paul's words in 2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." Even though it is very possible that Paul was only thinking of the Hebrew Scriptures when he wrote this. 

Books such as the Song of Solomon was argued against canonization because of it's sexual content, and the protestant Reformer Martin Luther expressed concern about the book of Esther (which never mentions God's Name even once) and Reformer John Calvin hardly wrote about it in commentaries.

To this day Esther is hardly preached on.

Top fifty secular YouTube channels (Gender statistics)

*Please note: For mixed certain channels are deemed mixed because they contain males and females but not necessarily around 40-50% as was the case for the Religious statistics.

Out of the top fifty most subscribed YouTube channels: 27 were male-dominated, 9 were female-dominated and 14 were mixed.

Which means:

54% were male-dominated.
18% were female-dominated.
And 28% were mixed.

You can see a pi-graph here: https://www.meta-chart.com/share/untitled-4489

Top Fifty Religious YouTube Channel Statistics

If your looking for the top 50 list, click here.

Part A: Divided by religion
Part B: Gender

Part A

64% of the top fifty YouTube channels defined as religious was from Christian Evangelicals.
22% was from Muslims.
6% was from Mormons.
6% was from Catholics.
2% was from Buddhists.

No Jewish, Sikh, New Age or other religious channels made the list.

It is interesting the to note that the percents generally match the pressure to spread their beliefs. Furthermore this gives us an idea of how willing followers of the faith are willing to subscribe to major YouTube channels that tend to focus on or represent their faith.

A Pi-graph can be viewed using this link: https://www.meta-chart.com/share/untitled-4451

Part B

Also interesting to note is the percentage of channels that are predominately male, female or mixed. Mixed is defined as having at least 40% of the opposite gender. Channels such as Jefferson Bethke is considered male dominate because most people who watch his videos watch them when he`s in them.

82% were male dominated.
12% were mixed.
6% were female.

A pi-graph can be viewed here: https://www.meta-chart.com/share/untitled-4484

The popularity of male-dominated channels isn`t entirely surprising when you consider that in Evangelical Christianity the vast majority of women aren`t pastors, in Islam imams can`t be female, and in Catholicism women can`t be priests.

Even the most popular Buddhist channel features a male monk. The few channels that are female-dominated are Evangelical music channels.

The top male-dominated channels are: Jerferson Bethke (1st), Anthem Lights (3rd) and The Merciful Servant (4th). 


The top mixed channels are: SkilletBand (2nd) and Mormon Channel (5th). 

The two female-dominated were KariJobeVEVO (18th) and FrancescaBattistelli (36th)

While the statistics may be surprising to some, the fact is that even in the secular realm of YouTube `Male-dominated` channels top the charts. 


For example out of the top fifty most subscribed YouTube channels PewDiePie (4th), HolaSoyGerman (8th) and Smosh (9th) are all male dominated. Whereas female-dominated channels such as RihannaVEVO (11th), KatyPerryVEVO (12th) and JennaMarbles (15th) always fall behind. Still, it`s clear that the ``gender balance`` between the popular secular channels and the popular religious channels is significantly different.

To see the statistics for the top fifty secular channels click here.

Fifty Most Popular "Religious" YouTube Channels List

I was wondering what the most popular YouTube channels are when it comes to "religious channels" 

I define a religious channel as one that has the majority of its videos dealing with God, Christianity, Islam, Catholicism, Mormonism, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism to some extent. This list excludes atheist channels, majority-comedy channels and channels with non-English names.

1.) Jerferson Bethke whose channel was formerly called bball1989 has 536, 838 subscribers as of June 3, 2015. His most popular video is "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus|| Spoken Word" which has 29,582,466 views. Its a Christian Evangelical channel.

2.) SkilletBand has 392,194 subscribers. Its Evangelical. 

3.) Anthem Lights has 351,250 subscribers. Their most popular video is a music video called "As Long As You Love Me--Justin Bieber" which has 4,693,362 views. The channel Christian Evangelical. 

4.) The Merciful Servant has subscribers 342,425 subscribers; its a Muslim channel. 

5.) Mormon Channel has 339,417 subscribers. As you say have guessed, it`s a Mormon channel. 

6.) Reach Records that features raps from popular Christian rapper Lacrea as well as others has 280,388 subscribers. The channel is Evangelical. 

7.) Hillsong Worship has 260,886 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel. 

8.) NewsboysVEVO has 258,677 subscribers. Its Evangelical. 

9.) Bethel Music has 257,969 subscribers. Its Evangelical. 

10.) The Daily Reminder has 257,729 subscribers. Its Muslim. 

11.) Talk Islam has 257,151 subscribers. Its a Muslim channel. 

12.) ChrisTomlinVEVO has 233,337 subscribers (even though its not his `official` channel.) Its Evangelical. 

13.) DigitalMimbar has 204,308 subscribers; its a Muslim channel. 

14.) Jesus Culture has 202,583 subscribers. Its Evangelical. 

15.) TobyMacVEVO has 180,245 subscribers. Its Evangelical. 

16.) Islamic Guidance has 180,140 subscribers. Its Muslim. 

17.) Muslim Speakers has 161,747 subscribers. Its Muslim. 

18.) KariJobeVEVO has 156,292 subscribers. Its also Evangelical. 

19.) TheAnimaSeries has 138,442 subscribers. Its Evangelical. 

20.) LivingWaters with host Ray Comfort has 122,689 subscribers. Its also an Evangelical channel. 

21.)P4CM (which stands for "Passion for Christ Movement") has 122,349 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel. 

22.) RELEVANT has 120,866 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel. 

23.) LoveAllah328 has 117,303 subscribers. It's a Muslim channel. 

24.) vatcan has 115,299 subscribers. (It`s Catholic.) 

25.) TheProphetsPath has 113,780 subscribers. Its a Muslim channel.

26.) The Skit Guys has 112,224 subscribers. Its Evangelical. 

27.) TheDeenShowTV has 107,479 subscribers. Its a Muslim channel. 

28.) imad07 has 98,723 subscribers and yet he hasn`t uploaded a video for three years (as of June, 2015) Its a Muslim channel. 

29.) Mormon.org (which includes the popular "I'm a Mormon" advertisements) has 97,233 subscribers. 

30.) Paul Begley has 94,629 subscribers. He has an Evangelical channel. 

31.) CastingCrownsVEVO 89,735 subscribers. Its Evangelical. 

32.) Mormon Tablenecle Choir has 87,812 subscribers; it`s Mormon. 

33.) Ill Be Honest has 84,662 subscribers. It's Evangelical. 

34.) Ravi Zacharias International Ministries has 83,042 subscribers. 

Its an Evangelical Christian channel. 

35.) Desiring God has 82,447 subscribers. Its another Evangelical channel. 

36.) FrancescaBattistelli has 79,599 subscribers. Its an Evangelical music channel. 

37.) ComeToTruth has 68,399 subscribers. Its a Muslim channel. 

38.) MandisaVEVO has 68,323 subscribers. It features songs from Evangelical singer Mandisa. 

39.) MercymeVEVO, which features songs from the Evangelical band has 63,827 subscribers.

40.) NickVujicicTV has 63,414 subscribers. Its yet another Evangelical channel. 

41.) Fr. Robert Barron has 59,681 subscribers. Its a Roman Catholic channel. 

42.) EWTN has 58,275 subscribers. Its a Roman Catholic channel. 

43.) BuddhistSoceityWA has 58,127 subscribers, it`s a Buddhist channel. 

44.) Grace to You has 57,469 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel. 

45.) chaseGodtv has 57,209 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel. 

46.) Wretched has 56,006 subscribers. Its an Evangelical channel. 

47.) ThirdDayVEVO has 51,044 subscribers. It features song from the popular Evangelical band Third Day. 

48.) JeremyCampVEVO has subscribers 48,324. Its Evangelical. (There is also a channel called ``JeremyCampMusic`` which has 43,296 subscribers.) 

49.) BDWmusic has 43,476 subscribers, it features songs based on the Evangelical Christian band Big Daddy Weave. 

50.) Acts17Apologetics: The ever controversial David Wood's channel takes 50th place with 42,594 subscribers. His most popular video is Of Mosques and Men: Reflections on the Ground Zero Mosque which had 3,604,631 views. Its Evangelical Christian. 

Best to Worse Provinces for Abortions

The following is a list of Canadian provinces and territories from the lowest reported abortion rates to the highest. It was created using 2013 data.

1.) PEI: No abortions were reported in 2013. 

2.) Newfoundland: With a population of about 528, 000, 223 abortions were reported in 2013. 0.04% of children are aborted. Please note: Private abortion places did not report their numbers; they were the only ones in Canada not to.

3.) New Brunswick: With a population of 755, 464, 1,036 abortions were reported. 0.13% of children are aborted. 

4.) Saskatchewan: With a population of 1,106.200, 1,921 abortions were reported. 0.17% of children are aborted. 

5.) Ontario: With a population of 13,550,900, 25,108 abortions were reported. 0.18% of children are aborted.

6.) British Colombia: With a populations of 4,582.600, 9,574 abortions were reported. 0.20% of children are aborted. 

7.) Nova Scotia: With a population of 942.900, 2,077 abortions were reported. 0.22% are aborted. 

8.) Nunavut: With a population of 35.400, 96  abortions were reported. 0.27% are aborted.

9.) Manitoba: With a population of  1,265,400, 3,873 were reported. 0.30%  are aborted. 

10.) Quebec: With a population of 8,154.000, 25,253 abortions were reported. 0.309% are aborted.

11.) Yukon: With a population of 36.400, 121 abortions. 0.332% are aborted.

12.) Alberta: With a population of 4,007,200, 13,376 abortions were reported. 0.333% are aborted.

13.) Northwest territories: With a population of 43.800, 211 abortions were reported. 0.48 of children are aborted. 

Sources:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/abortion-in-canada-its-legal-but-is-it-184327430.html 

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/demo02a-eng.htm

How Bad is Secular Music?

Most Evangelicals have abandoned the idea that secular music is completely evil. They argue that certain songs although defined as secular have value, in a similar way that a poem may be beautiful even without specifically mentioning God. But we all agree that certain songs are harmful to our soul and shouldn't be listened to.

I wanted to know how bad secular songs were so I looked at the 100 most popular songs of the week; if they contradicted accepted Christian ethics (that are based on Scripture) in any way I recorded how they had done so.

Here's what I found:*

* Please note: This deals with the song lyrics, not the music video.

Songs examined that are not necessarily harmful: 14

See you Again

Sugar

Love Me Like You Do

Shut up and Dance

Thinking Out Loud

Want To Want Me (But runs on the edge of unacceptable because of exalted a women's body over her soul.) 

Lay me down

Take Your Time

Shake It Off

I Want You To Know

Where Are U Now

I'm Not the Only One

Lips Are Movin

Budapest

Harmful: 27

Uptown Funk: Lusting after women and using the Hebrew word "Hallelujah" (which means "Praise be to [God's Sacred Name].

Trap Queen: Sexualizes a woman and promotes love of money.

Earned it: Promotes the idea that someone deserves praise, (when in reality they deserve Hell.)

GDFR: Exalts lusting over women and love of money.

Somebody: Exalts a life of risky drinking and of fornication.

Style: Unnecessarily refers to inmost dress. (Very close to acceptable.) 

Post to be (Fornication and drug reference) 

One More Time (swears) 

Chains (The song makes reference to a women as ``warm as a devil`` but also says ``but I wouldn`t change this love.`

Talking Body (drug references, uses profanity and swears)

Nasty Freestyle (uses profanity) 

Girl Crush (an honest song with an extreme coveting problem) 

Hey Mama (sexual references relative to a slave-women and owner-man, instead of a Song of Solomon relation.)

Dear Future Husband (Assumes she deserves a man`s service contrary to the understanding that we deserve damnation for our sins. Has a valuable overall message otherwise.) 

B*tch Better Have the Money (Profanity) 

Blank Space (Uses God's Name in vain) 

Time of Our Life (contains profanity and promotes a life style of fornication) 

Four-five Seconds (swears) 

Truffle Butter (glorifies fornication)

Honey, I'm Good (Once again: this song has good overall meaning but contains profanity regarding a women's rear-end.)

Blessings (contains profanity and exalts the self in pride)

Throw Sum Mo (contains profanity and promotes sexual-sin)

Take Me to Church (promotes the worship of a women and is filled with anti-Christian propaganda)

Worth It (exalts the self)

Slow Motion (promotes looking at a women sexually, whose likely not your wife.) 

Ayo (contains profanity and promotes a life style of fornication) 

You Know You Like It (Supports general rebellion and immaturity: "I just wanna have some fun, don't tell me what can't be done"

Undecided: 1

Hallelujah (The phase "I was drunk and it didn’t mean a thing" isn't clear: Did it not mean a think because you won't be held accountable on Judgement Day or because in the end getting drunk achieves nothing?) 

Left off on 42
of http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100