The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible
by B. B. Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (Author)
The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield 10 vols.
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One of the great and often asked questions of theology is addressed in this valuable apologetic text. The crucial subject of the authorship of the Bible can be a complex topic; however, Warfield delicately, clearly, and thoroughly illuminates the origins of scripture and the beauty of divine composition via human penmanship. This collection of essays, which answer and refer to debates, questions, and criticisms on the subject is a rigorous and worthy study of one of the fundamentals of show more Christianity. show lessTags
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I think it is safe to say that you cannot speak of the Reformed doctrine of Scripture without invoking B. B. Warfield. He remains the preeminent scholar defending the Bible's infallibility, inerrancy, and authority against its critics, in his day and our own.
Though this book is a collection of individual essays, there is a common thread that runs throughout Warfield's work: What Scripture says, God says. So the Bible is inerrant, authoritative, and immanent.
In 2 Timothy 3:16, the Apostle Paul says all Scripture (thus, we're talking about plenary inspiration) is breathed out (theoneustos) by God. As Warfield painstakingly proves, to say Scripture is inspired is to say it originates from God. It is a divine product. Therefore, it must be show more without error in all its parts since God Himself is truth and cannot lie. Scripture's divine origin also means it is authoritative; it compels the obedience of creatures to their Creator. Finally, and often overlooked as a key aspect of Scripture, the Bible is immanent. What does that mean? God is the living God and his word is so closely attached to his character and action that to read the Bible is to actually hear God speaking to us now. It is, as the author of Hebrews says, a living and active word (Hebrews 4:12). show less
Though this book is a collection of individual essays, there is a common thread that runs throughout Warfield's work: What Scripture says, God says. So the Bible is inerrant, authoritative, and immanent.
In 2 Timothy 3:16, the Apostle Paul says all Scripture (thus, we're talking about plenary inspiration) is breathed out (theoneustos) by God. As Warfield painstakingly proves, to say Scripture is inspired is to say it originates from God. It is a divine product. Therefore, it must be show more without error in all its parts since God Himself is truth and cannot lie. Scripture's divine origin also means it is authoritative; it compels the obedience of creatures to their Creator. Finally, and often overlooked as a key aspect of Scripture, the Bible is immanent. What does that mean? God is the living God and his word is so closely attached to his character and action that to read the Bible is to actually hear God speaking to us now. It is, as the author of Hebrews says, a living and active word (Hebrews 4:12). show less
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- [Foreword to the Revised Edition] The theological writings of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921) on the inspiration and authority of the Bible are as timey today as they were when he published them in the late ninete... (show all)enth and early twentieth centuries.
[Foreword to the First Edition] This volume contains the principal articles by the late Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield having to do with the nature and authority of the Bible.
[Introduction to Warfield's Works] It is a privilege to introduce this new edition of collected writings of B. B. Warfield. Behind the privilege lies a personal narrative.
Abstract: This chapter a nontechnical overview of the biblical idea of revelation, is divided into four parts: (1 The Nature of Revelation, (2) The Process of Revelation, (3) Modes of Revelation, and (4) Biblical Terminology... (show all). - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Foreword to the Revised Edition] My prayer is that this revised, enhanced volume will help foster an increased interest in Warfield's writing and that his words will continue to speak to the church across the coming decades with their original power and clarity.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Foreword to the First Edition] At the same time they will no doubt agree that in order to justify their objection they must be able to show that this conception of Scripture fits into, finds a more natural and logical a place in their system of theological thought, whether Lutheran or Arminian, than in the Reformed.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Introduction to Warfield's Works] The republication of these five volumes of Warfield's works in this splendid new edition is surely a further confirmation of Machen's conviction that the faith Warfield represented will be nourished for yet another generation of his readers, and indeed can never really die.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)We may be sure, therefore, that Warfield died confident that at the end of the years, all that is opposed to God will have been conquered and that the day is coming when it will be possible for "a great multitude which no man could number, out os every nation and all tribes and people and tongues'--redeemed humanity, in a word-- to assemble before the throne of God, at whose right hand sits the Lamb that was slain and join in the great jubilation: "Unto Him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins in His own blood; and He made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto His God and Father; to Him be the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen."
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