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(7) Mook's Definiton of Inspiration
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God, by the HS, moved the human authors of Scripture, so that through and without violating their own personalities, they, without error, composed and recorded God's complete canonical message to man in the words of the original autographs of the Bible.
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(7) Purpose of Inspiration
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To assure that man would have God's complete canonical revelatory message to him, without any admixture (blending) of error. ("admixture" - This word is used when the element mixed in is out of harmony with other aspects.)
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(7) Extent of Inspiration
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1. Words and syntax of Scripture (VERBAL) - Rev. 19:9
2. To every aspect of Scripture (PLENARY) - 1 Tm. 3:16 3. To the original autographs of the Bible. Technically, only the words and syntax of the original autographs constitute the Word of God written. A copy or translation can be called the Word of God in a derivative sense only insofar as it accurately reproduces or translates the original words and syntax 4. To the canonical books only. |
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(7) Three Deductive Proofs for the Doctrine of Inspiration
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1. Scripture is Self-Attesting / Self-Authenticating. The Bible attests to its own Divine character. It is self-authenticating, speaking with presumed Divine authority
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2. Scripture has Unity:
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- Thematic (the glorious reign of the Triune God) - Doctrinal (consistency of its teaching) - Prophetic (every prophecy fulfilled as it was predicted) |
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(7) Superiority of the Bible (optional)
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1. Factual (Archeological, Scientific)
2. Moral 3. Dynamic (Conversions, Social Reforms) |
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(7) Exegetical proofs from 2 Tim 3:16, 2 Pet 1:21; and 1 Cor 2:13 for the inspiration of Scripture
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2 Tm. 3:16 "all... scripture... God-breathed" (1 Tm. 5:18; 2 Pt. 3:15-16) 2 Pt. 1:21 (the process of inspiration) "men moved by the HS... spoke form God" 1 Cor. 2:13 "Spiritual thought with Spiritual words" |
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(7) Explanation how three other direct assertions of the Divine origin of Scripture in other passages support the doctrine of inspiration
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Ps. 119:140 the OT law as the Word of God
1 Tm. 5:18 Rev. 1:19 the words of John as the Word of God |
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(7) Explanation of and response to the false theories of inspiration of Scripture:
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1. Natural Inspiration - The Bible is the work of natural religious genius of the Jewish writers. Many passages are fictional and fanciful
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2. Mystical Inspiration - experience of 'God-consciousness'. Can be obtained by anyone. The Bible is a result of degrees of God-consciuounsess.
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3. Endorsement Inspiration - The writers of the Bible wrote apart from Divine assistance. Then God approved their work and infused it with His authority
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4. Partial Inspiration - God inspired the doctrinal and moral portions of the Bible, but not its historical and scientific portions.
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5. Existential Inspiration - The Bible is a human book which God has sovereignly chosen to use to communicate personal truth to man. This truth is communicated in a moment of existential encounter between Jesus Christ and the individual. In this moment the portion of fallible Scripture that the person is reading is used by Christ to confront that person. In this way, and only in this moment, and only for that person, the human fallible words of the Bible become the word of God
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6. Degrees of Inspiration - Some parts are more inspired, or are more inspiring than others. These parts are less in error than others.
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7. Dynamic Inspiration - God gave the concepts or thoughts of Scripture to the writers, but left them free to express those thoughts in their own words (including the use of erroneous stories).
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8. Mechanical Dictation Theory - It is claimed that they hold that the human authors of Scripture were nothing but secretaries of God, merely recording God's words by direct dictation, but not having any of their human personalities engaged in the style of the writing.
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(8) Definition of Salvific illumination
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The ministry of God by which He enables the individual person to spiritually and intimately (as an aspect of friendship with God) understand, approve, appreciate, and welcome the Scriptures. It is the ministry of God by which He enables an individual to "discern" (judge with approval) the things revealed by the "words which the Holy Spirit teaches" (1 Cor 2:14-15)
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(8) What is and What is not the evangelical doctrine of the perspicuity (Clarity) of Scripture
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- that the Christian actually understands and can explain every passage of Scripture
+ that the central message of the Bible concerning the glorious reign of the Triune God is so clearly stated that the simplest Christian has, by the Holy Spirit, the ability to understand, judge aright, and welcome that message. |
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(8) Definiton of Sufficiency of Scripture (1 Passage)
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The Scriptures give man adequate information about the nature and will of God, and the nature of spiritual and physical realities. God has revealed all that He deemed necessary to know about Him, His salvation, and His will for man and the rest of creation (John 20:30-31)
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(8) Definiton of animation of Scripture (2 examples)
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The Scriptures, by virtue of their inspiration and use by the Holy Spirit, contain and convey the life of God, producing great spiritual effects.
1. Living and powerful (Heb. 4:12) 2. Lives and abides forever (1 Pt. 1:23-25) |
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(8) Definiton of eternality of Scripture (1 example)
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The Scriptures are eternal in existence, but not necessarily eternally applicable in a primary sense. While some benefit may be derived from Scripture in each dispensation, certain passages were not meant to have primary application in every dispensation.
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(9) Definition of five false views of biblical inerrancy
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"Revelational View"
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Revelational - The Bible is inerrant only in its revelational truths. Non-revelational statements reflect the personal and cultural limitations of the human writers.
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"Purpose View"
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Purpose - The Bible is inerrant in that it infallibly accomplishes its Divine purpose to bring people into a saving relationship with God. The Bible was not intended to inerrantly communicate facts, but to lead people to salvation.
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"Indeceivability View"
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Indeceivability - The Bible is inerrant in the sense that it is free from intentional error, intentional deception. The Bible is inerrant in that it does not intentionally communicate anything than that which would lead man away from the salvific purpose of the Bible.
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"Accommodated View"
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Accommodated - In every aspect of the Bible, including religious and theological teachings, the Bible is marked by the limitations of fallible humanity, because it was written by fallible humans
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"Neo-orthodox View"
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Neo-orthodox - The Bible is a human book, containing errors. But it is used by Christ to encounter a person existentially and occasionally - and non-propositionally. While the words are never objectively inerrant, in the existential moment of encounter with Christ, the words become an inerrant medium of encounter - but only in that moment, and only for that person.
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"irrelevancy View"
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Irrelevancy View - The Church should not talk about inerrancy. It is an irrelevant and divisive issue. It is a recent doctrine, and detracts from the main purpose of the Bible - to move man to have a personal relationship with God.
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(9) Dr. Mook's Definition of inerrancy of Scripture
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The words of the Bible in their historical, grammatical, literary, and moral settings in the original autographs of the Bible are wholly true in what they affirm, in every respect, whether these words concern doctrine, morality, history, or any of the sciences.
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(9) Explanation of parts of Inerrancy Definition
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"the words of the Bible..."
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the message is bound up with words.
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"...in historical, grammatical, literary and moral settings..."
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there are historical, cultural, social contexts behind the words. The words mean what they originally meant. There is grammar and syntax behind the words. There are various literary genres. There are moral settings, ex. words of Satan as lies.
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"...in the original autographs of the Bible..."
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We have the Word of God retained in the autographs.
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"...are wholly true"
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All of it, of all of them, every part.
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(9) Inerrancy Supported from Theology Proper,
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1. The Bible reveals God as eternal, omniscient, omnipotent,omnipresent, and absolute truth (Hebr. 6:18) 2. The Bible claims to be plenarily and verbally "breathed" by God (2 Tim 3:16). 3. No one has been able to prove that the Bible asserts any error with respect to the empirical realm, nor that the Bible containsany internal contradictions. The fulfillment of prophecies (Luke 24:25, 27) |
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(9) Inerrancy Supported from Jesus Christ
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1. The New Testament MSS are reliable reproductions of the original autographsof the New Testament
2. In the NT MSS Jesus claims to be God (John 8:58) 3. Jesus supported His claims by His sinless life and powerful deeds,including His resurrection from the dead (John 8:46) 4. Jesus treated the Scriptures as inerrant, because the Scripturesare the Word of God (Matt. 5:17-19) 5. Since Jesus is God, His claim that the Scriptures are inerrant is true |
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(9) Inerrancy Supported from the Apostles
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5. The Apostles werepersonally appointed by Jesus Christ and promised that all the truth would be revealed to them (John 14:26, 16:12-13) 6. The Apostles claimed that the Bible is "God-breathed," and, by implication, inerrant (2 Tm. 3:16) 7. The Apostles were conscious that they we rewriting Scripture that was just as inspired by God and, therefore, just as much the Word of God as the Old Testament Scriptures (Heb. 3:7; 1 Thess. 2:13) |
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(9) Inerrancy Supported from the OT |
1. It claims that it is inerrant (Deut. 4:2, 6:1-2) |
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(10) The name of the evangelical seminary that abandoned its former belief in the inerrancy of Scripture |
Fuller Seminary |
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(11) Explanation of the source of the authority of Scripture |
It is authoritative because it's from God, not because we recognize it as so. |
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(11) how the authority of Scripture isassured; |
Assured: By the method of the composition: Verbal, Plenary Inspiration. Every word of Scripture is inspired |
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(11) how that authority is inerrant; how that authority is supreme and absolute; how that authority is attested to and imposed on people |
Inerrant: There is no error in it. It's reliable. Supreme and Absolute: It is directly from God Attested to and imposed: It is inspired and illuminated by the HS. |
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(11) objective and subjective authority ofScripture
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Objective: its authority is due to its Divine Author and the impressing this authority on the Scripture but he inspiration of the HS Subjective: the authority that is due to the internal testimony of the HS, by which the HS infallibly causes faith in the Bible as the Word of God. |
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(11) how a proof-passage argues for the internal witness of the Holy Spirit
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1 Cor 2:12-15 - By effectual grace, The Holy Spiritenlightens and empowers a person to approve and welcomethe Bible as the wisdom of God 1 Thess. 1:5; 2:13 - By effectual grace, The Holy Spiritbrings the Bible to a personwith “power . . . and in muchassurance,” so that person “welcomed it notas theword of men, but as it is in truth,the word of God.” |
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(11) Definition of the canonicity of Scripture |
kanw,n = "rod, measuring rule, standard" (Gal. 6:16). Thecollection of inspired books as the "standard" of thefaith. |
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(11) What is not and what is the source of the canonicity of Scripture |
It is not the church who conferred the canonicity. It is God who conferred canonicity on Scripture by His authorship and by means of verbal plenary inspiration by the HS. |
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(11) How canonicity was conferred on the books of the Bible |
1. Throughthe inspiration of the words of Scripture itself. 2. Throughthe testimony of God the HolySpirit to the Divine authorityof the various books of the Bible. |
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(11) Stages of OT canonical recognition by Israel, by Christ, and by the Church |
By Israel: The Law / Pentateuch recognized as canonical from the time of its writing. The prophets were men through whom God gave direct revelation. There was an end of the prophetic succession. The Writings are properly classed among the prophets (the designation of the OT Canon is "the Law and the Prophets"). By Christ: Jesus By the Church: |
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(11) How the Church developed a “canonicalconsciousness” about the addition of the NT books |
There was a canonical consciousness in the church from its beginning (p.21) |
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(11) The two (2) events and their dates that marked the relative formal dogmatization of theNT canon in the eastern Church and in the western Church in the ancient Church era |
Eastern Letter of Athanasius (367) and Synod of Carthage (397) |
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(11) The stimuli of formal recognition of the NT canon |
Influence of Marcion, Gnostic esoteric speculations and traditions, Apocryphal literature, Montanist collection of their new prophecies, Persecution (which book are you will to die for?) |
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(11) The correct principles applied by the ancient Church in recognizing the NT canon |
Principles of Divine Testimony: self-authenticating divine authority, testimony of Christ, testimony of the HS Principles of Observed Phenomena: Orthodoxy, Apostolicity, Agreement with Previous Revelation, Ecclesiastical Usage and Acceptance, Intrinsic Spiritual effect |
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(11) Reasons 9 and 12 for not accepting the Apocrypha |
9. Roman Catholic Council of trent (1545) and the Greek Council of Constantinople (1638) two major Councils that accepted apocryphal books. Trent in reaction to the Protestant Reformation. 12. According to Josephus and the Talmud, the HS departed from Israel after Malachi. Even 1 Macc. 9:23-27 indicates that the prophetic age had ceased a considerably long time prior to the author's time. |
