A Word That Means Agains the Bible

…I disagree.

You say, "Mr. Pilliod, how could you disagree with that statement?!"  Good question.  Let me betoken you lot to a statement from the apostle Paul in his second letter to Timothy, in particular, chapter three and verses 15-17:

 "And that from childhood yous accept known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make yous wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.  All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the human of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every skilful piece of work."

I'd like to focus on the word "inspiration" now.  In the Greek it is θεόπνευστος, or theopneustos, which comes from 2 root words:  theos, significant God, and pneuma, meaning spirit or breath or current of air.  So what we accept hither is that God breathed out His Word through men such that the Scriptures were written.

How could this happen?  Did God move the pen that the man held?  Of form not.  Did God usurp the will of human in order that His Word could be revealed in written grade to all of mankind?  Of course not.  It is a mystery, to be certain, but God does not force man'south will such that he should sin…neither does God force man's volition such that he would write what God wants him to write.  God's motivations to our will are perfect, complete, and intimate in such fashion as only bachelor from Creator to creature.  Therefore, when God motivates men's minds to write the Words of God, they practise so with precision, accurateness, and infallibility while at the same time using their own techniques, styles, grammatical idiosyncrasies.  God is THAT good, you know!  So, we can be assured that what the men wrote, they wrote in the Spirit of God and in the perfection of God.  I guess that sums it upwards.  I'm certain I've written some portion of this incorrectly and would really like to exist corrected in this such that I tin nuance it better so delight feel costless to let me know!

I'd like to also discuss, briefly, the phrase from our passage that reads, "All Scripture is given…"  Did you hear that (or read that)?  "All Scripture."  Therefore, the Bible does not only 'contain' God'southward Give-and-take, but it all 'is' God's Word!  If the Bible simply 'contained' the Word of God, and then that would hateful that some small portion of the Bible was 'not' the Word of God.  Or it might mean that l% of the Bible was 'not' the Word of God.  Or it could mean that the vast majority of the Bible was 'not' the Word of God.

The problem and then becomes one of figuring out which sections of Scripture are indeed God's Discussion and which sections are not God's Discussion.  For example, conspicuously if the Bible only 'independent' the Word of God then the section of our passage saying that "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God" would past necessity NOT be the Discussion of God!  Hmm…

Some other point…if the Bible merely contains God's Word, then where might nosotros place our ultimate authority?  I know of many 'places' we might place such dominance, but I'd like to focus on one since I'1000 a science guy.  Secular science operates under a philosophy called naturalism as well equally materialism.  Basically, the commencement axiom is that all of existence can be boiled down to affair and/or energy because those are the only things in existence.  In our current civilization, science has taken a place of authorization in our thinking.  Unfortunately, the Christian can autumn into this trap besides.  The Christian, though, uses phrases like "God's general revelation."  It is truthful that there are two revelations of God.  One is indeed the general revelation.  This is the revelation of God in the Creation.  We tin glean much about God from general revelation.  For example, laws of logic, mathematics, the fact that there is a sense of good and evil, that the world is looking for God through diverse religions, etc.  But empathise this:  nature is corrupted, cursed, and fallible according to God'south special revelation.  And that is the second revelation of God.  God has particularly revealed Himself in two ways: One is through Holy Scripture and the other is through the Incarnation.

The Scriptures and Jesus on globe are perfect, infallible, and inerrant.  So I ask yous…which of God's 2 revelations should take precedent over the other?  That'due south right, God'south special revelation in Holy Writ is the ultimate say-so through which nosotros should view God'southward general revelation…and this includes the "discoveries" of scientific discipline.

Cornelius Van Til, apologetics scholar, says this,

"God'due south revelation in nature was from the outset of history meant to be taken conjointly with God'southward supernatural Communications."

Van Til was specifically referring to Genesis chapter 2 and the explicit account of the sixth twenty-four hours of Creation.

Steve Ham in his book "In God we Trust" says,

 "In the Garden of Eden, Adam was given explicitly communicated instructions from God in relation to understanding the environment around him.  In the midst of the cute garden surrounding him, God supernaturally instructed Adam to work it and keep it, to eat of any of the trees except the tree of the cognition of practiced and evil.  God's special revelation allowed Adam to brand sense of the surround around him, otherwise he had no way on his ain but to imagine and guess.  When we choose to reject God's special revelation for understanding the world effectually usa and the life nosotros live, we also only imagine and gauge."

Then I implore you to take careful stock of where you are placing your source of authority.  It'south not similar both nature and the Bible are on equal footing because both are God's revelation, nay, nature is clearly and totally subservient to the special revelation of Scripture.  And then what does this mean?  Information technology means that when the Bible touches on bug of science, then the Bible is correct in what it says in regards to the bug of science.  Our measurements are fallible.  Our observations are fallible.  Nature is cursed and fallen; God'due south special revelation is non.

So what does this have to do with the Pilliod family going to Panama?  Recall on it.  If the Bible merely contains the Word of God, then it could be possible that what has become known every bit the Great Commission might just not be God's Give-and-take!  If the Bible merely contains God's Word, and then maybe Scripture is subservient to nature?  I deny this outright!  The Great Commission is God'south Word.  We Christians are allowable to take the Gospel to all the globe…

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Soli Deo Gloria

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