![]() ![]() autographa) were inerrant and/or infallible and/or flawless. Rather, they claim that the original manuscripts (i.e. Regarding the second issue, most Evangelicals do not claim that the extant manuscripts of the Bible are inerrant and/or infallible and/or flawless. ![]() The Reformed argument for the Bible being "God's Word" is not based on the idea that God came up with the words, but that God's authority backs up the words. However, this is not the Reformed argument, or the opinion of a great many others in the Evangelical camp. Your may have a reasonable objection against those who believe that the Bible is God's Word because it records the words God's spoke, dictated, or wrote himself. The Bible is the Word of God because it carries his delegated authority, not because the words themselves originated with him (cf. Moreover, because they were covenant emissaries, their words were not only true but, more importantly, authoritative. Nevertheless, through their own personalities and words, under the inspiration of the Spirit, they wrote words that God affirmed completely. They were not possessed, and God did not tell them what to write word-for-word. However, the Holy Spirit did this through the personalities of the authors. Reformed theology affirms what we call "organic inspiration." This is the view that the Holy Spirit inspired men to write, and so guided their writing that their original meaning was infallible. None of these positions has been affirmed by Reformed theology. The most liberal view, of course, is that the Bible is purely a work of man. This is one way to arrive at the idea that the Bible "contains" the Word of God (some of the things in the Bible are the Word of God, others are not). A more liberal doctrine, sometime called "romantic" inspiration, considers that God moved peopel to write, but did not so govern their writing that they were incapable of making errors, misrepresenting doctrine, judging wrongly, etc. A step down from there is what is sometimes called "dictation," where God did not possess the writers, but told them every word to write. On the first issue, many Evangelicals hold to what we might call "mechanical" inspiration, which is the idea that God "possessed" them, taking over their persons so that the original writers were little more than puppets. You've raised at least three significant issues: inspiration, inerrancy/infallibility, and Canon. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.He Gave Us Scripture: Foundations of Interpretation.Your Kingdom Come: The Doctrine of Eschatology.Kingdom, Covenants & Canon of the Old Testament.Kingdom & Covenant in the New Testament. ![]()
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