Objections have been raised repeatedly, as we have seen, against the Bible’s teaching of its unique inspiration. In this way an attempt has often been made to undercut the sovereign authority with which the Word addresses men. Many of the so-called objections against the doctrine of verbal inspiration are caricatures of what the Bible and therefore […]

For some time now we have been dealing with the way in which the Biblical teaching concerning its own reliability and infallibility has been under attack. Many are the arguments used in this attack. At all costs, according to some of the most influential teachers and preachers of our day, the Bible must be reduced to an […]

Attacks too numerous to be mentioned have been leveled against the Holy Scriptures, especially in our day. While claiming to have high regard for the Bible as a source for lofty ethical and religious principles, many people reject as totally indefensible the historic Christian conviction that this book is reliable because it has been verbally inspired […]

In the last article we noted that verbal inspiration by no means commits us to the position that God’s holy Word was mechanically dictated. In fact, a careful study of Scripture itself precludes the possibility of such a conclusion. On every page we find the imprint of the activity of the “human” authors. This acknowledgement on the part […]

We are continuing our brief series on the inspiration of God’s Word. Our concern is not to set forth that doctrine as such; rather it is to expose some of the oft-beard caricatures of this position which the church has championed and cherished for centuries. In our first article we raised the question: How reliable is […]