Running Head: The Inspiration and Inerrancy of the Bible The Bible was Inspired by God Robert Surface Student # L23603038 Liberty University The Bible is the authoritative source of God’s Word to two hundred and forty seven million people throughout the United States who claim to be Christians. However, to accept the Bible as authoritative we must also accept the answers to more general questions in relationship to the Bible. We will discuss in this paper the question of what it means to say that the Bible is an authority as well as where that authority originates. We will discuss inspiration and the definition of inerrancy. In detail we will discuss the relationship between inspiration and inerrancy.
But What Does It Mean to Me? "What does this verse mean to me?" by John MacArthur All Rights Reserved That's a fashionable concern, judging from the trends in devotional booklets, home Bible study discussions, Sunday-school literature, and most popular preaching. The question of what Scripture means has taken a back seat to the issue of what it means "to me." The difference may seem insignificant at first.
2. With what theological and biblical perspectives does he approach the subject? 3. What is the author’s goal? 4.
Throughout this letter I hope I can help you understand your questions you might have. The ideas of singer are also very strong so the questions seem understandable. Catholics get our truths from scripture which is truth that god has revealed to us. This goes against singers logic that all knowledge is achieved through reason. The idea that god has revealed his own divine word to the prophets from the past and then let them pass the word down to our
Introduction Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament is written by Dr. Christopher J.H. Wright (Ph.D., Cambridge). Dr. Wright is the director of international ministries for the Langham Partnership International, also known as the John Scott Ministries in the United States. Dr. Wright is an ordained Anglican Minister and Old Testament scholar. In his book Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament Dr. Wright puts forth that one cannot truly know Jesus without first knowing His story.
Some have criticized James in that they thought he was teaching that salvation was by works alone, but in reality he is complementing Paul’s teaching of salvation by faith. The two go hand in hand. Salvation by faith results in holy living (Harper, 1967). The book is included to help believers put their faith into action. It is not enough to talk the talk but to also live it (James 2:14, New Living Translation).
92 – 112). In 384 Augustine relocated to Rome and eventually, “out of professional curiosity,” “went to hear the city’s most famous public speaker.” Bishop Ambrose’s sermonic oratory witnessed to Augustine in such a way that it lead to his conversion after which had he “heard a much more intellectually respectable interpretation of the Scriptures”. We can say that at this point in his life Augustine became more spiritually than intellectually motivated and upon later hearing a young child repeatedly singing “Tolle lege (‘Pick up and read’)” – while
St. Augustine directly addressed God and thanks God for creating him and giving him redemption. Confessions influenced Christian values during the spread of Christianity to Rome and during the medieval period. During the medieval period the majority of the population was Christian and these people based their lives around Confessions. This book had a profound effect on the spread of Christianity. Augustine writes Confessions to influence non-Christians to convert because of his strong belief in Christianity.
Aquinas’ Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas, in Part One of Summa Theologica, examines the employment of figurative language within the Bible. Aquinas deals with the Bible, Christianity’s main source of direction, but I believe that the anthology includes this short section of Aquinas’s religious manual because it poses the question whether divine literature should utilize such language. This is an important question because it can be argued (As Aquinas points out) that figurative language is more easily interpreted in different ways than literal writing and thus has a higher chance of either being interpreted wrongly (not the way the divine author destined it to be) or to not be understood in the first place because of its confusable language (Thomas Aquinas 181). If one allows for inclusion of figurative language within a holy text, does that make different interpretations of the content acceptable? The answer is difficult, but Aquinas argues for the inclusion of figurative language, stating that the similitudes and metaphors do the following: help man understand spiritual things with human’s rhetoric, to challenge the scholarly believer to look for more insight while also attracting the uneducated with simpler ideas, to defend the holy writing from those who do not belief (181-182).
The Bible teaches and illustrates Christian key beliefs and ideas. It is known to be the inspired Word of God, which sees the detailed formation of Christians key beliefs, most notably the nature of God, revelation, salvation, the divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ, as well as the death, resurrection and ascension of Christ. Major principle beliefs include: God created all that is seen and unseen. Christians believe that God is the creator of the universe. This is based on various Bible passages.