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Can We Trust the Bible
A GROUP OF LEADING THEOLOGIANS SPEAK OUT
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First published January 1, 1983
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September 4, 2024
SIX SERMONS SUPPORTING BIBLICAL INERRANCY
Editor Earl D. Radmacher was a professor of systematic theology and later president of Western Seminary, and is now President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus. He wrote a number of books, such as 'Hermeneutics, inerrancy, and the Bible,' 'Salvation,' 'The Nature of the Church,' etc. This 1979 book contains essays by James Packer, Edmund Clowney, Robert Preus, James Boice, W.A. Criswell, and R.C. Sproul.
Radmacher states in his Preface, "A deep and growing concern over the strategic importance of the inerrancy of the autographs brought into existence, in 1977, The International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, which has as its purpose the defense and application of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy as an essential element for the authority of Scripture and a necessity for the health of the church... The present volume is the second to come from ICBI [the first was Foundation of Biblical Authority] and contains the six stirring sermons that were preached in the plenary sessions of the Summit Conference ... in October of 1978." (Pg. 10-11)
Packer states, "Look at the words of our text [2 Pet 1:19-21]. They are words of the Apostle Peter, the anchor man of the early church. They are words from the second letter that he wrote, using, I think, a different amanuensis to compose it for him from Silvanus, the man whose help he employed in the first letter. And that explains why the style of 2 Peter is different from the style of the first letter, and why the difference has nothing whatever to do with doubts about authorship." (Pg. 17)
Preus says, "the Scriptures ... are so imminently practical. Practical for everything that pertains to the Christian faith and life. Because the Bible is produced by the breath of God, Paul says, because it is his word, it is useful, profitable for the four things he lists [in 2 Tim 3:14-17]. I am sure he could have listed many more, and there is a great deal of overlap among these three things." (Pg. 63)
Criswell recalls, "Once, after I had been at our church for about a year, I announced to the people that I was going to preach through the Bible. I was going to start at Genesis and go to the last benedictory prayer in Revelation. You never heard such lugubrious prognostications in your life. They'd never heard of anything like that. And the leading people of the church came to me and said, 'Oh Pastor, oh-h-h, you will kill our church. It will burn. Nobody's going to come to hear somebody preach about Habakkuk or Haggai or Nahum...' I grant you that we had a problem. But ... the problem was, 'What in earth are we going to do with the people who are trying to crowd into this auditorium to hear the Word of the Lord?'" (Pg. 101-102)
There isn't much "new ground" covered here, but these sermons from distinguished exegetes are an excellent "summation."
Editor Earl D. Radmacher was a professor of systematic theology and later president of Western Seminary, and is now President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus. He wrote a number of books, such as 'Hermeneutics, inerrancy, and the Bible,' 'Salvation,' 'The Nature of the Church,' etc. This 1979 book contains essays by James Packer, Edmund Clowney, Robert Preus, James Boice, W.A. Criswell, and R.C. Sproul.
Radmacher states in his Preface, "A deep and growing concern over the strategic importance of the inerrancy of the autographs brought into existence, in 1977, The International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, which has as its purpose the defense and application of the doctrine of biblical inerrancy as an essential element for the authority of Scripture and a necessity for the health of the church... The present volume is the second to come from ICBI [the first was Foundation of Biblical Authority] and contains the six stirring sermons that were preached in the plenary sessions of the Summit Conference ... in October of 1978." (Pg. 10-11)
Packer states, "Look at the words of our text [2 Pet 1:19-21]. They are words of the Apostle Peter, the anchor man of the early church. They are words from the second letter that he wrote, using, I think, a different amanuensis to compose it for him from Silvanus, the man whose help he employed in the first letter. And that explains why the style of 2 Peter is different from the style of the first letter, and why the difference has nothing whatever to do with doubts about authorship." (Pg. 17)
Preus says, "the Scriptures ... are so imminently practical. Practical for everything that pertains to the Christian faith and life. Because the Bible is produced by the breath of God, Paul says, because it is his word, it is useful, profitable for the four things he lists [in 2 Tim 3:14-17]. I am sure he could have listed many more, and there is a great deal of overlap among these three things." (Pg. 63)
Criswell recalls, "Once, after I had been at our church for about a year, I announced to the people that I was going to preach through the Bible. I was going to start at Genesis and go to the last benedictory prayer in Revelation. You never heard such lugubrious prognostications in your life. They'd never heard of anything like that. And the leading people of the church came to me and said, 'Oh Pastor, oh-h-h, you will kill our church. It will burn. Nobody's going to come to hear somebody preach about Habakkuk or Haggai or Nahum...' I grant you that we had a problem. But ... the problem was, 'What in earth are we going to do with the people who are trying to crowd into this auditorium to hear the Word of the Lord?'" (Pg. 101-102)
There isn't much "new ground" covered here, but these sermons from distinguished exegetes are an excellent "summation."
June 5, 2009
Excellent.
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