Genesis 3:15 as a Test Case* Abstract: Evangelical scholars have championed grammatical-historical interpretation as an objective means of sifting truth from error. This approach has value if we use it as one focus, but limitations if we use it as a total account. The temptation arises to think of objective interpretation as implying total domination [...]
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What Do We Mean by Sola Scriptura? by Dr. W. Robert Godfrey
This article originally appeared as Chapter I in Sola Scriptura! The Protestant Position on the Bible Don Kistler, General Editor and published by Soli Deo Gloria Publications. There are two main issues that divide Protestant Catholics from Roman Catholics. Both groups claim to be catholic, that is, part of the apostolic, universal church of Jesus [...]
Why Our Church Switched to the ESV
For years I read, preached and taught from the KJV. I appreciate the language and love the translation, but made the transition to the ESV several years ago. And I’m thankful we did. So when I saw this new booklet from Kevin DeYoung I was intrigued. It is an excellent little work for anyone considering [...]
Excellent Quotes from Sola Scriptura: The Protestant Position on the Bible
Sola Scriptura , the formal principle of the Protestant Reformation, is essential to genuine Christianity, for it declares that the Bible is the inspired word of God, the church’s only rule of faith and practice. Yet this doctrine is under assault today as never before, both from outside and and inside the church. I’ve had [...]
The Authority and Inspiration of the Scriptures by Benjamin B. Warfield
Warfield (1851-1921) was Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. Christianity is often called a book-religion. It would be more exact to say that it is a religion which has a book. Its foundations are laid in apostles and prophets, upon which its courses are built up in the sanctified lives of [...]
What Are We Looking For In The Bible? by Michael S. Horton
We must not tell chiefly of people, of their faith as an attracting example and of their sins as a repelling example, but we must tell of the revelation of the grace of God in Christ.1′ Author of the remarkably useful four-volume set, Promise and Deliverance (Paidea Press), S. G. De Graaf in the above [...]
Sola Scriptura and the Early Church by William Webster
The Reformation was responsible for restoring to the Church the principle of Sola Scriptura, a principle which had been operative within the Church from the very beginning of the post apostolic age. Initially the apostles taught orally but with the close of the apostolic age all special revelation that God wanted preserved for man was [...]
The Authority of Scripture by Martyn Lloyd-Jones
An extract from a sermon on: ‘Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth’ Ephesians 6.14 There can be no doubt whatsoever that all the troubles in the Church to-day, and most of the troubles in the world, are due to a departure from the authority of the Bible. And, alas, it was the [...]
The Battle for the Bible by Herman C. Hanko
Professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary Preface The church today has lost its spiritual moorings. This is evident from the introduction into the church of various heresies which have infiltrated the church and have sapped her spiritual life. Almost all evangelical and Reformed churches, e.g., have abandoned the truth [...]
The Christians Surest Guide: Subjective Feelings or God’s Word? by Charles Alligood
‘Though it is the quintessence of Enthusiasm to pretend to be guided by the Spirit without the written Word, yet it is every Christian’s bounden duty to be guided by the Spirit in conjunction with the written Word of God. Watch, therefore, I pray you, O believers, the motions of God’s blessed Spirit in your [...]
The Concept and Importance of Canonicity by Greg Bahnsen
Scripture as Final Authority The Christian faith is based upon God’s own self-revelation, not the conflicting opinions or untrustworthy speculations of men. As the Apostle Paul wrote: ‘your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God’ (I Cor. 2:5). The world in its own wisdom would never understand [...]
The Formation Of The Canon Of The New Testament by Benjiman B. Warfield
B. B. Warfield (1851-1921) was the last great theologian of the conservative Presbyterians at Princeton Theological Seminary. His activity as a theologian coincided with the period when higher-critical views of Scripture and evolutionary conceptions of religion were replacing evangelical convictions in most of America’s major institutions of higher learning. Warfield distinguished himself as a scholarly [...]
The Scriptures and the World by Arthur W. Pink
Not a little is written to the Christian in the New Testament about ‘the world’ and his attitude towards it. Its real nature is plainly defined, and the believer is solemnly warned against it. God’s holy Word is a light from heaven, shining here ‘in a dark place’ (2 Pet. 1:19). Its Divine rays exhibit [...]
What today’s Christian needs to know about The Greek New Testament by G. W. Anderson
TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY In recent years there has been much confusion concerning modern translations and editions of the Greek New Testament. Some people make claims regarding the Greek New Testament without having information and facts to support their claims. Many people claim that their translations are accurate because those translations are based upon the best [...]
The Inspiration Of Scripture – Part I: The Nature of Scripture Inspiration by Loraine Boettner
The Nature of Scripture Inspiration The answer that we are to give to the question, ‘What is Christianity?’ depends quite largely on the view we take of Scripture. If we believe that the Bible is the very word of God and infallible, we will develop one conception of Christianity. If we believe that it is [...]
The Inspiration Of Scripture – Part II: The Writers Claim Inspiration by Loraine Boettner
The Writers Claim Inspiration Our primary reasons for holding that the Bible is the inspired Word of God are that the writers themselves claim this inspiration, and that the contents of their messages bear out that claim. The uniformity with which the prophets insisted that the messages which they spoke were not theirs but the [...]
The Inspiration Of Scripture – Part III: The Nature of the Influence by Which Inspiration is Accomplished by Loraine Boettner
The Nature of the Influence by Which Inspiration is Accomplished The evangelical Christian churches have never held what has been stigmatized the ‘mechanical’ theory of inspiration, despite the charges often made to the contrary. Instead of reducing the writers of Scripture to the level of machines or typewriters we have insisted that, while they wrote [...]
The Inspiration Of Scripture – Part IV: The Alleged Errors in Scripture by Loraine Boettner
The Alleged Errors in Scripture One of the most distressing things in present-day churches is that whereas in the religious debates of earlier days they used to argue about what the Bible said, never for a moment doubting that what it said was true, groups within the various churches are now arguing as to whether [...]
The Inspiration Of Scripture – Part V: The Trustworthiness of the Bible by Loraine Boettner
The Trustworthiness of the Bible After a survey of the alleged errors and discrepancies, including not only the typical ones just mentioned, but also many others, we assert, without fear of successful contradiction, that no one of these is real. As Christians we call this book the ‘Holy Bible.’ But if it were only a [...]
The Inspiration Of Scripture – Part VI: The Plenary Inspiration of the Bible by Loraine Boettner
The Plenary Inspiration of the Bible INCONSISTENT POSITION OF THE MODERNISTS We have already said that so-called Modernists or Liberals have no consistent stopping place. They must either go clear over to rationalism and barren negation, or they must turn back again to an authoritative Scripture. The history of Protestant Liberalism shows us very dearly [...]
The Scriptures More Precious Than Gold by Charles Bridges
‘The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.’ (Psalm 119:72) Well might David acknowledge the benefit of affliction, since he had thus learned in God’s statutes something that was better to him than thousands of gold and silver. This was indeed an enlightened judgment for one to form, [...]
