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NASB | Psalm 119:138 You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness And exceeding faithfulness. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 119:138 You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness And in great faithfulness. |
Subject: Doctrine of the Authority of Scripture |
Bible Note: It is one thing to affirm that the Bible claims to be the words of God. It is another thing to be convinced that those claims are true. Our ultimate conviction that the words of the Bible are God's words comes only when the Holy Spirit speaks in and through the words of the Bible to our hearts and gives us an inner assurance that these are the words of our Creator speaking to us. Just after Paul has explained that his apostolic speech consists of words taught by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 2:13), he says, "The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14). Apart from the work of the Spirit of God, a person will not receive spiritual truths and in particular will not receive or accept the truth that the words of Scripture are in fact the words of God. We are persuaded of the truthfulness of Scripture, since God cannot lie or speak falsely (Titus 1:2). Therefore, all the words in Scripture are completely true and without error in any part. God's words are the ultimate standard of truth. Per 2 Timothy 3:16 all Scripture is profitable for (1) teaching for correct belief, (2) reproof for rebuking incorrect belief, (3) correction of unrighteous behavior, (4) training in righteousness behavior. (Note that orthodoxy deals with right thinking, and orthopraxy deals with right living.) (These notes culled from Dr. Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology, Zondervan Press) |
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