Monday, October 08, 2012

B. B. Warfield on the Univocal Nature of Inspiration



So much for the idea that the Bible is at no single point the same words or the same thoughts that God shares with the creature on the creaturely level.  It would appear that B. B. Warfield would have disagreed with the modern advocates of Cornelius Van Til's theology of Scripture as "analogy" rather than the very words of God:


What this church-doctrine [inspiration] is, it is scarcely necessary minutely to describe. It will suffice to remind ourselves that it looks upon the Bible as an oracular book,—as the Word of God in such a sense that whatever it says God says,—not a book, then, in which one may, by searching, find some word of God, but a book which may be frankly appealed to at any point with the assurance that whatever it may be found to say, that is the Word of God.

Warfield, B. B. (2008). The Works of Benjamin B. Warfield, Volume 1: Revelation and Inspiration (p.52). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.

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