of a conscious human author and at the same time the exact word that God intends for the revelation of himself. b. Variation within Dual Authorship – Bible authors were prophet, historian, etc., and also God’s revelatory agent. Much of the Bible is situational literature; that is, addressed to specific persons facing particular historical situations with applications for today. God has revealed himself in history through repeated, consistent, and anticipatory ways. c. Implications of Dual authorship The purpose of the human author. God included patterns, or foreshadowing, of which the human authors were not fully aware. The biblical authors were conscious of being used by God to convey his word and believed that their revelation was part of a grand scheme of history. Inspiration and Incarnation The divine-human dual authorship of Scripture can be compared with the Lord Jesus Christ, who is both fully human and fully God. The divine=human dimension of the Bible concerns is authorship, not its very nature. II. Outline Summary of Chapter 4 The Vocabulary of Inerrancy – Bible accepted as completely truthful in all matters that it asserted until mid-seventeenth century. Within the last 50 years, a vocabulary has evolved to summarize various claims of Biblical truth. Inerrancy – The Doctrine of Inerrancy means that the Bible is completely truthful in all things that the biblical authors assert, whether in
of a conscious human author and at the same time the exact word that God intends for the revelation of himself. b. Variation within Dual Authorship – Bible authors were prophet, historian, etc., and also God’s revelatory agent. Much of the Bible is situational literature; that is, addressed to specific persons facing particular historical situations with applications for today. God has revealed himself in history through repeated, consistent, and anticipatory ways. c. Implications of Dual authorship The purpose of the human author. God included patterns, or foreshadowing, of which the human authors were not fully aware. The biblical authors were conscious of being used by God to convey his word and believed that their revelation was part of a grand scheme of history. Inspiration and Incarnation The divine-human dual authorship of Scripture can be compared with the Lord Jesus Christ, who is both fully human and fully God. The divine=human dimension of the Bible concerns is authorship, not its very nature. II. Outline Summary of Chapter 4 The Vocabulary of Inerrancy – Bible accepted as completely truthful in all matters that it asserted until mid-seventeenth century. Within the last 50 years, a vocabulary has evolved to summarize various claims of Biblical truth. Inerrancy – The Doctrine of Inerrancy means that the Bible is completely truthful in all things that the biblical authors assert, whether in