Bibliology Inspiration And Inerrancy Of The Bible
Bibliology: Inspiration and Inerrancy of the Bible
To say that the Bible has authority is to say that the Bible is from God, because God is authority. Because the Bible goes about directing your attention to God, we can imply that it is reverencing any authority found in its pages to a supreme authority giver. With any authority given it must begin with God, for he is his own authority. This is found when he makes a covenant with Abraham in the Old Testament. No other name is of greater authority and so the Lord swears an oath by his own name. (Heb. 6:13) Inspiration is best understood as Gods authority being revealed to us miraculously through the Holy Spirit. God chose specific people to write his prefect Words exactly that way …show more content…
he wanted them written to his people that he loves and cares for with the Holy Spirit helping to guide their pen strokes along the way. (2 Tim. 3:16) When Gods authoritative inspiration is revealed to us we call this inerrancy.
Not only are they inspired by God and revealed to us through the Bible, but also they are precisely what God wanted to be understood. Just as God is known to be without error, following sensibly neither are his words without error. (John 1:1) When it comes to Biblical passages that are found to prove inerrancy false such as morally objectionable scripture, we must ask our selves “what is morally objectionable? and “Who decides what is and is not morally objectionable?” This is supposing there is a law that makes some things objectionable and others not. And if we can say there is such a thing than we must admit that somewhere there is a supreme lawgiver who decides what is and is not morally objectionable. And if there is such a living being to decide what is and is not morally objectionable than it must be super naturally authoritative. This follows up with the understanding that God is authoritative and the scripture through inerrancy and inspiration point to him as being so. If this can be accepted as truth, than all other argumentative material can be understood as inaccurate and false. No form of alleged errors, ridicule, divergent events or numbers can hide the light of subjected truth on this
matter. Inspiration is made complete by the concept of inerrancy. Inspiration is the concept that normal everyday people were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write Gods revelation to us, his people in physical understandable words and language. We are comforted and reassured by the concept of inerrancy knowing that a perfect God would not allow his ideas and his teachings to be skewed by the people he chose to fulfill this life changing communication. This communication between God the supreme ruler over all nature on earth and in the heavenly realms is the connection point that reveals to us many things. Ultimately that God loves and cares about his creation, he wants to gain a relationship with his people, and that though the evidence is laid out for us clearly and accurately, we still have the choice to debate and not accept the evidential truth of God.
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Bibliography
Feinberg, P.D. “Bible, Inerrancy and Infallibility of.” In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, ed. Walter A Elwell, 2nd ed., 743-44. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001.
Henery, C.F.H. “Bible, Inspiration of.” In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, ed. Walter A Elwell, 2nd ed., 743-44. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001.
Towns, Elmer. Theology for Today Mason, OH: Thomson Custom Solutions Center, 2001.
To say that the Bible has authority is to say that the Bible is from God, because God is authority. Because the Bible goes about directing your attention to God, we can imply that it is reverencing any authority found in its pages to a supreme authority giver. With any authority given it must begin with God, for he is his own authority. This is found when he makes a covenant with Abraham in the Old Testament. No other name is of greater authority and so the Lord swears an oath by his own name. (Heb. 6:13) Inspiration is best understood as Gods authority being revealed to us miraculously through the Holy Spirit. God chose specific people to write his prefect Words exactly that way …show more content…
he wanted them written to his people that he loves and cares for with the Holy Spirit helping to guide their pen strokes along the way. (2 Tim. 3:16) When Gods authoritative inspiration is revealed to us we call this inerrancy.
Not only are they inspired by God and revealed to us through the Bible, but also they are precisely what God wanted to be understood. Just as God is known to be without error, following sensibly neither are his words without error. (John 1:1) When it comes to Biblical passages that are found to prove inerrancy false such as morally objectionable scripture, we must ask our selves “what is morally objectionable? and “Who decides what is and is not morally objectionable?” This is supposing there is a law that makes some things objectionable and others not. And if we can say there is such a thing than we must admit that somewhere there is a supreme lawgiver who decides what is and is not morally objectionable. And if there is such a living being to decide what is and is not morally objectionable than it must be super naturally authoritative. This follows up with the understanding that God is authoritative and the scripture through inerrancy and inspiration point to him as being so. If this can be accepted as truth, than all other argumentative material can be understood as inaccurate and false. No form of alleged errors, ridicule, divergent events or numbers can hide the light of subjected truth on this
matter. Inspiration is made complete by the concept of inerrancy. Inspiration is the concept that normal everyday people were inspired by the Holy Spirit to write Gods revelation to us, his people in physical understandable words and language. We are comforted and reassured by the concept of inerrancy knowing that a perfect God would not allow his ideas and his teachings to be skewed by the people he chose to fulfill this life changing communication. This communication between God the supreme ruler over all nature on earth and in the heavenly realms is the connection point that reveals to us many things. Ultimately that God loves and cares about his creation, he wants to gain a relationship with his people, and that though the evidence is laid out for us clearly and accurately, we still have the choice to debate and not accept the evidential truth of God.
Word count: # 525
Bibliography
Feinberg, P.D. “Bible, Inerrancy and Infallibility of.” In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, ed. Walter A Elwell, 2nd ed., 743-44. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001.
Henery, C.F.H. “Bible, Inspiration of.” In Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, ed. Walter A Elwell, 2nd ed., 743-44. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001.
Towns, Elmer. Theology for Today Mason, OH: Thomson Custom Solutions Center, 2001.