1st Peter 3:15 commands us to “be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.” The word “answer” is “apologiav” in the Greek and means “defense or a thoughtful defense of the faith.” One of the areas we [...]
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Alleged Contradictions in God’s Word, Part 1
Posted: September 28, 2009 in BibleTags: B. B. Warfield, Charles Ryrie, E. J. Young, Edward Carnell, Louis Gaussen, Steward Custer
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Inspiration of Scripture: “Who or What was Inspired?”
Posted: September 19, 2009 in BibleTags: Millard Erickson, A. H. Strong, Charles Ryrie, Charles Hodge, Zane Hodges, Arthur Farstad, Rodney Decker, Norman L Geisler, William E. Nix
There are primarily two views on this subject of who or what was inspired in the inspiration process of writing Scripture. 1. THE AUTHORS WERE INSPIRED TO WRITE THE INSPIRED WORD A. H. Strong wrote, “The inspiration of the Scripture writers” (Systematic Theology, 212, 213). Charles Hodge wrote similarly, “Inspired men the organs of God” [...]
Origin of Inspired Scripture
Posted: September 14, 2009 in BibleTags: A. T. Robertson, George W. Knight, Inspiration, Norman Geisler, The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Wayne Grudem
Attacks against the inspiration of the Bible, the written Word, are similar to the attacks against Jesus Christ, the living Word. Jesus was a good man, but not God, not without sin, the critics say. But just as Jesus claimed to be the sinless Son of God, John 10:30, so does the Bible claim to [...]
