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Jesus is the Word of God. Of that we have no doubt. What some do doubt is that Scripture is God’s Word. Some even deny it. Why do some think that Jesus being the Word of God and Scripture being the Word of God are mutually exclusive propositions? Do you wish for the short...
The Bible comes from God; God doesn’t come from the Bible. Our knowledge of God is a different story. What we know about God, definitively and redemptively, comes from the Bible. And that is, the Bible that comes from God, who himself comes from nothing. These are the foundational pieces to understanding the doctrine...
Joel’s post is here. My first and second replies. “2. Since the Bible is coherent and reliable we can with good reason take it at its word that it is inspired7, and thus is the Word of God and that it is God’s revelation of Himself and that His plan for us is contained...
Joel’s post is here. My first reply is here. Presupposition Three: The Lordship of God That’s his next one. How does he define Lordship? “The lordship of God means that He must be obeyed. We must yield to Him and His demands, commands, wishes, and purpose for us” And yet, we see in Eden...
But although we can learn from the history of doctrine and from contemporary theologians, the final answers must come from the Word of God itself. And I don’t think you need to look hard to find those answers. You don’t need to engage in abstruse, complicated exegesis. You need only to look at the...
in our view, the very essence of the case is, that, under the force of their conception of the Scriptures as an oracular book, it was all one to the New Testament writers whether they said “God says” or “Scripture says.” This is made very clear, as their real standpoint, by their double identification...
Just so Joel will understand my position. And McGrath misrepresents the issue in a classic and straw man sort of way. perspicuity: clearness or lucidity, as of a statement. From the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith: (See also the Westminster Confession of Faith) The whole counsel of God concerning all...
“I will worship towards thy holy temple, And praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” (Psalm 138:2) While many state that inerrantists exalt Scripture above God and thus worship Scripture,the reality is that God has exalted Scripture above His name. Whatever...
That scientific hubris is the central issue I want to get my students thinking about, and the reason I’m willing to play the Neanderthal. Within my frame of reference as an earth-bound observer of the heavens—which is, of course, the only frame of reference most of us ever know—the statement “the sun rises” is...
There is no more reliable witness than Scripture. In fact, they are as reliable as the rising of the sun, the coming of winter, and as true as 2+2=4. For it is a ridiculous thing to see the sun, and the moon, and the other stars, continually keeping the same course, and bringing round...
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