Subject: An Enemy Has Done This! (Matt 13:24-30) |
Bible Note: Dear Vintage68, If you get that book I told you about, you will love it. It speaks to many of these things. The doctrine of sola scriptura helps us understand the many aspects of the Word of God. When we consider things like the sufficiency and the necessity of Scripture, we come to understand that God has providentially provided at any given time in human history all that is needful for "all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience." Whether the divinely inspired writer realized that he was penning the Word or not, is really neither here nor there. Even in the times of the primitive church, we have clear assurances concerning what the Holy Spirit was providing in terms of revelation of the Word of God to His own. Peter, consequently, assures us that these precious epistles are part of Scripture. Consider the following: "Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things [the denouement and consummation of God's purposes in redemptive history], be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless, and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction." (2 Peter 3:14-16 NASB) As R. C. Sproul put it once, we have a fallible canon of infallible Scriptures. We may be confident, though, that God has assuredly provided and protected the Word for us (Hebrews 1:1-2). By the way, you might appreciate reading through the Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy here: http://www.bible-researcher.com/chicago1.html I'd further commend you to the related document on Biblical Hermeneutics: http://www.bible-researcher.com/chicago2.html In Him, Doc |