Feinberg, And Credibility Of Revelation In The Bible

Revelation To establish a perfectly rational pattern one must begin with revelation, as this is God’s self-disclosure in making Himself know to men”.4 Mankind has understood God through God’s message. Christians have understood that man always has access to God because God has chosen to reveal himself to us. C. F. Henry states, “The Old Testament prophets consistently speak of their world as the words of God, moreover the NT apostles speak of revelation in the form of definite ideas and words, (cf.1Thess: 2:13) where Paul commends the Thessalonians”4. God’s historical character has _____________________________
2. P. D. Feinberg, “Bible, Inerrancy and Infallibility of” in Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2nd ed., edited by Walter
Packer states, “Revelation is certainly more than the giving of theological information, but it is not and cannot be less.” 5“Personal friendship between God and man grows just as human friendships do — namely, through talking; and talking means making informative statements, and informative statements are propositions. . . . To say that revelation is non-propositional is actually to depersonalize it”6. . . . “To maintain that we may know God without God actually speaking to us in words is really to deny that God is personal, or at any rate that knowing Him is a truly personal
To begin the answer is the self-witness itself, the Bible. The Old Testament remains crucial because these prophets report that their writings come directly from God. According to Bromiley, “Inspiration thus arises naturally and necessarily from the divine source and authority.” 8 “Nor does it refer only to an ecstatic upsurge of the human spirit; the reference is plainly to the in working of the Holy Ghost.”9. Millard Erickson defines” inspiration as “that supernatural influence of the Holy Spirit upon the Scripture writers which rendered their writings an accurate record of the revelation or which resulted in what they wrote.” Actually being the Word of God”10 as, “God divinely used
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5. .I. Packer, God Has Spoken: Revelation and the Bible, 3rd ed. (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993), 87
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8 Geoffrey W. Bromiley, “The Church Doctrine Of Inspiration”, (2017), accessed May 2, 2017, http://[www.biblicalstudies.org.uk.6.doi 10.1.1.503.7194.
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10 Millard Erickson, Christian Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1983) pg., 199
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his influence over human authors in such a way that they wrote for God. Inspiration then is “God-breathed” If “inspired” really means “God-breathed,” then the claim of 2 Timothy 3:16 is that all Scripture, being God-breathed, is without error and therefore can be trusted completely. Since God cannot lie Hebrews