This world is no friend of grace and it is no friend of the Book that brings us grace.\u00a0 As the centuries have come and gone it seems that all controversies over the Christian belief in God, in Christ, in salvation, eventually come back to the reliability of our Bible.\u00a0 Surely such will be the case as we approach the end of the age.\u00a0 Already we can feel the animosity and antipathy from the world when we speak of the Word of God, or speak as though we were speaking for God Himself, as Peter admonished us, \u201cIf any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God\u201d (1 Peter 4:11).\u00a0 The unbeliever chafes at the idea that someone might actually have the very Word and therefore the very authority of God to tell him of his soul\u2019s destiny.<\/p>\n
Many have said, in effect, that the Bible is something in which a child can wade and an elephant can swim.\u00a0 Rabbi Eleazer\u2019s words are often quoted,<\/p>\n
If all the seas were of ink, and all ponds planted with reeds, if the sky and the earth were parchments and if all human beings practiced the art of writing\u2014they would not exhaust the Torah I have learned, just as the Torah itself would not be diminished any more than the sea by the water removed by a paint brush dipped in it.1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Perhaps that was the inspiration for one of the most beautiful verses of hymnody,<\/p>\n
Could we with ink the oceans fill,<\/p>\n
and were the skies of parchment made;<\/p>\n
Were every stalk on earth a quill,<\/p>\n
and every man a scribe by trade;<\/p>\n
To write the love of God above<\/p>\n
would drain the ocean dry;<\/p>\n
nor could the scroll contain the whole,<\/p>\n
tho\u2019 stretched from sky to sky.2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
It is enough that we face all the forces of Satan in this world against the Bible without having to face disagreement and controversy from within Christianity.\u00a0 We must first read the Bible.\u00a0 Statistics abound which point to the fact that Christians who say they believe the Bible is the very Word of God spend precious little time reading it.\u00a0 We must also believe it.\u00a0 The present age demands that we have confidence in this Book as we face such critical unbelief.\u00a0 We must also understand what we read and believe about this Book, that though it was given by inspiration once years ago, and though it has been handled by human hands over the centuries, it remains the Word of God spread over the whole globe, translated in scores of languages, and preached by faithful men in all cultures.<\/p>\n
We have a revealed Bible<\/h2>\n
When we speak of biblical revelation we mean that God has made known to us things which we could not have otherwise known.\u00a0 Paul makes it clear to the Corinthians,\u00a0 \u201cBut as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.\u00a0 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God\u201d (1 Corinthians 2:9-10).\u00a0 If God is the God of Whom the Bible speaks, then such revelation is not only possible but probable and necessary.<\/p>\n
Revelation is usually divided into two areas:\u00a0 general and special (or non-miraculous and miraculous).\u00a0 General revelation refers to\u00a0 how God has made Himself known in nature.\u00a0 \u201cThe heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork\u201d (Psalm 19:1); \u201cFor the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse\u201d (Rom. 1:20). Though nature does not delineate the gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ it does reveal enough about God to leave man without excuse.<\/p>\n
A second area of general revelation is man\u2019s conscience.\u00a0 Conscience isn\u2019t a complete revelation either, but it is God\u2019s witness to us about things we should know.\u00a0 \u201cFor when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:\u00a0 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another\u201d (Rom. 2:14-15).<\/p>\n
When speaking of Scripture, however, we usually speak of special or miraculous revelation.\u00a0 We understand that God has revealed Himself to humans many times throughout history.\u00a0 We only know some of what God spoke to Adam when they walked in the garden.\u00a0 The same could be said for Enoch who walked with God, or any of the prophets who wrote some of the things they heard from God.\u00a0 Miracles, dreams, visions, and the like were also various means of revelation, as the book of Hebrews begins, \u201cGod, who at various times and in different ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets\u201d (Heb. 1:1, NKJV).<\/p>\n
There were two magnificent and final ways in which God revealed Himself.\u00a0 The writer of Hebrews continues to say, \u201cbut has in these last days spoken to us by His Son\u201d (1:2).\u00a0 The incarnation of God in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ was the greatest revelation of God to man.\u00a0 \u201cNo man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him\u201d (John 1:18).\u00a0 When the disciple Thomas asked Jesus to show him the Father Jesus answered, \u201cHave I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?\u201d (John 14:9).\u00a0 This incarnation happened only once.\u00a0 Jesus resurrected and ascended back into heaven with the same fleshly existence which He gained by His journey to earth.\u00a0 His post-resurrection appearances only showed the truth of His incarnation.<\/p>\n
The other great and final way God revealed Himself was through Scripture.\u00a0 As we will see next, inspiration was also a one-time event, that is, though it was accomplished over a fifteen hundred year span, it is finished and no more inspiration has happened since John finished the book of Revelation.\u00a0 This was indeed a miraculous revelation, as 1 Cor. 2:9-10 above shows.\u00a0 To claim that God again opened the gift of inspired written revelation would be as serious an error as claiming that the Son of God was again incarnated.\u00a0 Neither revelation had to happen twice for either one to be authoritative, final, and a powerful truth that transforms lives throughout the rest of history.\u00a0 Jude called Scripture, \u201cthe faith which was once delivered unto the saints\u201d (Jude 3).<\/p>\n
We have an inspired Bible<\/h2>\n
Paul wrote,\u00a0 \u201cAll scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:\u00a0 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works\u201d (2 Tim. 3:16-17).\u00a0 The claim of having the only book in the history of the world that is completely without error and therefore completely truthful does not sit well with this postmodern, deconstructive culture.\u00a0 Yet that is exactly what we do claim.\u00a0 The miraculous writing of the Scriptures was as perfect in every detail as the incarnation of the Son of God.<\/p>\n
It is common to use the words \u201cplenary\u201d and \u201cverbal\u201d to describe the process of inspiration.\u00a0 \u201cAll Scripture\u201d is inspired, the apostle said.\u00a0 That is, it is \u201cGod-breathed.\u201d\u00a0 God made man a living soul when He \u201cbreathed into his nostrils the breath of life\u201d (Gen. 2:7).\u00a0 \u201cBy the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth\u201d (Psa. 33:6).\u00a0 So God created the Scripture when He breathed into them by His Holy Spirit the very words He wanted on the paper.\u00a0 This process happened sixty-six times so that they were all, \u201cplenarily,\u201d inspired yet making up only one Book with inspiration extended to all its parts.\u00a0 J. Gresham Machen described the process of various writers with various talents and vocabulary as many musicians blending their various instruments together into one great harmonious song.3<\/p>\n
That the Bible was inspired in a plenary fashion speaks to its broadness.\u00a0 The Bible was also inspired in a verbal fashion which speaks to its narrowness.\u00a0 Verbal, of course, means pertaining to the very words.\u00a0 The word \u201cscripture \u201c comes from the word graphe, which means writing, or the marks on the page.\u00a0 David declared that \u201cthe words of the LORD are pure words\u201d (Psa. 12:6).\u00a0 The mind of God could not be made clear to us merely by thoughts.\u00a0 W.H. Griffith Thomas said, \u201cSurely inspiration cannot mean an uninspired account of inspired thoughts.\u201d4\u00a0 He also quoted Abraham Kuyper as asking if we can have music without notes, or math without numbers?\u00a0 Neither can we have a meaningful inspiration that does not pertain to the words.<\/p>\n
This process of inspiration was for the purpose of giving us the Word of God.\u00a0 When that process was complete the miracle of inspiration ceased.\u00a0 That\u2019s why Jude said it was \u201conce for all\u201d given to us (Jude 3), and why Paul called it a \u201cperfect\u201d thing (1 Cor. 13:8-13) which when it came, incomplete things would be finished.<\/p>\n
Rolland McCune offers three reasons why inspiration pertained only to the original documents or autographs.\u00a0 First, God\u2019s direct involvement with the text was only with the originals, seen in various texts which state that God spoke by the mouth of a certain author (Acts 1:16; 4:25; 28:25).\u00a0 Second, the Bible\u2019s various warnings about adding or subtracting from the text \u201cpresuppose\u201d that only the originals were guaranteed from error and not subsequent copies.\u00a0 Third, there are warnings about corrupting the meaning of a text because that would not properly represent the text as originally written (Mk. 7:9; 2 Cor. 4:2; 3:5-6).\u00a0 \u201cTherefore,\u201d McCune says, \u201cto tamper with meaning one must corrupt the original revelation\u2019s words, presupposing again the complete, uncorrupted state of the original.\u201d5<\/p>\n
We have a canonized Bible<\/h2>\n
When we say this we mean that the \u201ccanon\u201d is complete, i.e., the number of books God intended to have in the Bible are all in the Bible and none others.\u00a0 We can\u2019t expect the unbelieving world to accept this concept either because it would take an unmistakable, providential work of God to put together such a book.\u00a0 They would rather believe that the Bible was an invention of man from beginning to end.\u00a0 To them, some men with an agenda made the Bible with these 66 books and eliminated books that would have contradicted their purpose.\u00a0 To this end, every generation throughout the church age has resurrected this old canard in an attempt to discredit the Bible.\u00a0 Dan Brown\u2019s make-believe book, The Davinci Code, is built upon the theory that the doctrine of the deity of Jesus Christ was fabricated by the established church, and if they would have allowed other books into the Bible they would have to admit that Jesus had a child by Mary Magdalene who carried on the secret bloodline.\u00a0 It is always interesting to see unbelievers opt for the most fantastic things so long as they don\u2019t have to believe the Bible.<\/p>\n
It is for the above reason that W.H. Griffith Thomas says, \u201cThe Bible is not an authorized collection of books, but a collection of authorized books.\u201d6\u00a0 He means that the canon was not made by men but was recognized by men to be from God.\u00a0 This field has been studied, critiqued, investigated, attacked, and vindicated as much as any field of study.\u00a0 Therefore, good men write about it from a variety of profitable ways.\u00a0 Almost all speak of the tests that were applied to the Biblical books.\u00a0 Ryrie uses authority, uniqueness, and acceptance by the church.7\u00a0 Geisler and Nix ask, were the books authoritative, prophetic, authentic, and dynamic?8\u00a0 Thomas says, \u201cThe basis of our acceptance of the New Testament is what is called in technical language, \u2018Apostolicity\u2019; because the books came either from Apostolic authors, or through Apostolic sanction.\u2019\u00a0 Our view of the Old Testament [also] corresponds to this.\u201d9<\/p>\n
We can also place the process of canonization into different stages.\u00a0 The first stage would be the self-authentication stage, i.e., when the books were being written and recognized by the church.\u00a0 Ryrie says, \u201cThe books were canonical the moment they were written.\u00a0 It was not necessary to wait until various councils could examine the books to determine if they were acceptable or not.\u00a0 Their canonicity was inherent within them, since they came from God.\u201d10\u00a0 That\u2019s why Paul could begin the book of Galatians by saying, \u201cPaul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead\u201d (Gal. 1:1).<\/p>\n
To Timothy Paul says, \u201cFor the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.\u00a0 And, the laborer is worthy of his reward\u201d (1 Tim. 5:18).\u00a0 It is significant to note that Paul quotes Moses from Deut. 25:4 and also Jesus (and therefore Luke) from Luke 10:7.\u00a0 Before the whole New Testament was even completely written, Paul calls the words of Jesus and the writing of Luke, \u201cScripture.\u201d\u00a0 In another example of self-authentication, Luke 11:51 says, \u201cFrom the blood of Abel, unto the blood of Zechariah, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.\u201d\u00a0 The blood of Abel is recorded in the first book of the Old Testament (Genesis 4), and the blood of Zechariah is recorded in the last book of the (Jewish) Old Testament (2 Chronicles 24).\u00a0 In this way Jesus was including all of our 39 books of the Old Testament in the canon.<\/p>\n
The second stage of canonicity would be debating authentication, or the time after the first century when the church affirmed our 66 books to be the canon of the Bible.\u00a0 Of this Ryrie says, \u201cPeople and councils only recognized and acknowledged what is true because of the intrinsic inspiration of the books as they were written.\u00a0 No Bible book became canonical by action of some church council.\u201d11\u00a0 This stage of the canon was complete by the council of Carthage in 397 A.D.\u00a0 There seems to be no serious question about the canon after this time.<\/p>\n
The third stage could be called ongoing authentication.\u00a0 Throughout the history of the church, no other books have been able to lay any serious claim to authenticity.\u00a0 From Carthage forward books were categorized as homologoumena (accepted by all); pseudepigrapha (rejected by all); antilegomena (disputed by some); and apocrypha (accepted by some).12\u00a0 But in all of this, only our present canon remain as the 66 books of the Bible.<\/p>\n
Geisler and Nix summarize by writing that \u201cthe vast majority of the New Testament books were never disputed from the beginning.\u00a0 Of the books originally recognized as inspired but later questioned, all of them came to full and final acceptance by the universal church.\u201d13<\/p>\n
This article will be finished in the next issue as we talk about preservation, translation, and interpretation.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Notes:<\/p>\n
1. I have this quote even from the French skeptic Jacques Derrida in his Grammatology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) p. 16.<\/p>\n
2. Frederick M. Lehman, The Love of God, verse 3.<\/p>\n
3. J. Gresham Machen, The Christian Faith in the Modern World (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Eerdmans, 1947) 53.<\/p>\n
4. W.H. Griffith Thomas, How We Got Our Bible (Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1926) 89.<\/p>\n
5. Rolland McCune, A Systematic Theology of Biblical Christianity, vol. I (Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008) 94-96.<\/p>\n
6. Thomas, 25.<\/p>\n
7. Charles Ryrie, Basic Theology (Wheaton:\u00a0 Victor Books, 1987) chapter 15.<\/p>\n
8. Norman Geisler & William Nix, From God To Us (Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1974) chapter 6.<\/p>\n
9. Thomas, 22-23.<\/p>\n
10. Ryrie, 105.<\/p>\n
11. Ryrie, 105.<\/p>\n
12. See Geisler & Nix, chapter 10, for a thorough discussion of these terms.<\/p>\n
13. Geisler & Nix, 125.<\/p>\n
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