To proclaim ‘the authority of Scripture’ does not add anything substantive to all this. It is, rather, one way in which we can usefully talk about the sum of all these parts. It is really a way of summarizing all that this book outlines. It states that we believe that all of this is true, that the sovereign God has indeed authored Scripture this way and chooses to relate to us in this way through Scripture. It commits us to giving the Bible the sovereign place in our lives that must follow from its central place in relation to God and his actions.
