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Inerrancy Defined and Defended

Inerrancy Defined and Defended. KP10-IAB-06/10

A. Definition of inerrancy: “When all the facts become known, they will demonstrate that the Bible in its original autographs and correctly interpreted is entirely true and never false in all it affirms, whether relative to doctrine or ethics or the social, physical or life sciences” (Paul Feinberg).

Three qualifications: 1) Inerrancy applies equally to all parts of the Scripture as originally written (autographa). 2) Inerrancy is intimately tied up with hermeneutics. 3) Inerrancy is related to Scripture’s intention. 4) Inerrancy applies equally to all parts of the Bible as originally written. This means that no present manuscript or copy of Scripture, no matter how accurate, can be called inerrant. As such, the goal of textual criticism – Not inspired codex, but inspired text.

B. Inerrancy is defined in terms of truth and falsity rather than in terms of error. Inerrancy covers all areas of knowledge. Inerrancy is not limited to matters of soteriological or ethical concern.

C. Inerrancy is affirmed throughout church history (John Woodbridge).

D. Spectrum or typology of views on inerrancy.

E. Clearing common misunderstandings about inerrancy.
Common Charge: No existing original manuscripts. Therefore inerrancy is meaningless.
Answer: Difference between Inerrant Word(text) vs Inspired-Inerrant Codex.

Conclusion: Inerrancy means having an advance commitment to receive as truth from God all that scripture is found on inspection actually to teach (J. I. Packer).

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Special Characteristics of God-Inspired Scripture. IAB-05/10

Special Characteristics of God-Inspired Scripture. IAB-05/10

A. Two predicates or qualities of inspiration
1) Inspiration is plenary. That is to say, ‘the whole of Scripture is given by divine inspiration.’ The whole of the Scripture, from beginning to end and inclusive of all its parts, is inspired.

2) Inspiration is verbal. The inspiration of Scripture extends down to its very words. This affirms that each word of the original was given by divine inspiration. In affirming plenary, verbal inspiration, we are saying that ‘the Scriptures not only contain but are the Word of God, and hence that all their elements and all their affirmations are absolutely errorless, and binding the faith and obedience of men.

B. Perspicuity or Clarity of Scripture. The Bible is clear enough to be understood by anyone who is willing to read it with the help of the Holy Spirit, using ordinary means and is willing to obey it.

C. Holy Scripture contains all things necessary to salvation; so that whatsoever is not read therein, not may be proved thereby is not to be required of any man that it should be believed as an article of the faith. The closing of Canon of Scripture implies the completeness and sufficiency of its contents, just as it expresses a conviction of the fulfillment, and completion of revelation.

D. The Bible is its own interpreter. Scripture contains within itself the material and ruling principles by which the meaning of any particular verse may be determined.

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God and the Laws of Logic. Archetypal Ectypal Model vs Theistic Conceptual Realism Model

The Theistic Conceptual Realism Model view of relationship between God and logic

The Archetypal Ectypal Model view of relationship between God and logic

Key:
AEM = Archetypal-Ectypal Model.
TCRM = Theistic Conceptual Realism Model
ATSC = Archetypal Trinitarian Self Coherence
I = ‘‘l’’ refers to the laws of logic as we know it, an accommodated form of the ectypal laws of thought in God’s mind
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Herman Bavinck Archetypal-Ectypal Model of Knowledge and True Theology. BB003

Divine revelation is the foundation of true knowledge of God
For Herman Bavinck, the only adequate foundation for human knowledge of God is God’s self-disclosure. Without divine revelation, human knowledge remains speculative and distorted by finitude and sin. Divine revelation bridges the knowledge gap between God and man, but what is the relationship between knowledge in God and knowledge that is revealed to us? Continue reading “Herman Bavinck Archetypal-Ectypal Model of Knowledge and True Theology. BB003”