Posts Tagged ‘Bible’
What Is the Infallibility of Scripture?
Ask Pepsi how much error can cost you. Error can have consequences. A computer error back in the ’90s cost Pepsi their money and reputation in the Philippines when they accidentally printed the winning number for a million peso giveaway on 800,000 bottle caps (mentalfloss.com). People make mistakes. We err. But what if the Bible…
Read MoreNo Taste or Smell
Not having taste or smell has been one of the strangest experiences of my life. I had no symptoms of Covid until I couldn’t smell garlic bread! It’s been three months. I have resorted to drinking tea in the mornings and really praying over certain foods I trust are still good. It has been nearly…
Read MoreWhat Is Inerrancy?
What else comes from Chicago besides hotdogs and deep-dish pizza? Back in 1978 in the Windy City, 268 evangelical scholars signed on the line to affirm their belief in the doctrine of inerrancy. Inerrancy means the Bible is free from error.1 They called the document they signed the “Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy.” I’ll spare…
Read MoreWhat Is Scripture?
Theology in 300 Seconds (give or take) [follow link to video, previous article here] “The B-I-B-L-E, Yes that’s the book for me.” What about you? The Bible is the Word of God. Jesus is the “Word of God” and “the Word” (Rev. 19:13; John 1:1). The “Word of God” also includes those words God has…
Read MoreWhat is revelation?
As Bernard Ramm put it: “In its broadest sense “revelation is the sum total of the ways in which God makes himself known.”1 We could never know God — we could never discover God — if God did not reveal Himself to us. It would be kind of like Jack Slater from Last Action Hero…
Read MoreCall for Discussion: the Arlington Statement on Bible Translation
With this article, we bring the Arlington Statement on Bible Translation to your attention. The statement is a new development, created in 2019 by a group of scholars including fundamentalists and evangelicals. The intention is to set a standard for Bible translation going forward that will avoid problems others fell into in recent years (perhaps,…
Read MoreTHE FUNDAMENTALS: The Bible
September/October 2019 | VOLUME 29 | NUMBER 5 O How I Love Your Law God’s people have always loved His Word. Clement of Rome, who ministered just after the apostles, instructed his readers, “Look carefully into the Scriptures, which are the true utterances of the Holy Spirit.” Augustine is famously quoted as calling the Holy…
Read MoreGeneral Meditations on the Bible
Ed. Note: Our friend John Mincy started a project of daily Scripture meditations on his FaceBook page. For your edification, we would like to share them from time to time. This first piece contains thoughts on the Bible itself, our precious word from God. Revelation (the Bible is revealed by God to prophets and apostles);…
Read MoreSola Scriptura – Conclusion
The Bible is fully sufficient for the salvation of man and the development of the believer into full maturity (2 Tim 3:16–17). Through the assimilated Word of God, each man and woman who belongs to God is to be “fully equipped” by the Holy Spirit so that they may know either in precept or in…
Read MoreThe Believer’s Certainty that the Scriptures Are the Final Authority for Belief and Behavior (Part 3)
The Scriptures Correct by Exposing Aberrant Behavior “Correction” (ἐπανόρθωσιν, 2 Tim 3:16c) is used in the sense of “setting something right,” most likely with reference to conduct as it was sometimes used in extra biblical literature.1 God’s Word has the authority to regulate personal and public conduct. Attitudes and behavior among “Christian” young people toward…
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