Category Archives: Doctrine of the Word of God

B. B. Warfield on the Divinity and Humanity of the Bible

From B. B. Warfield’s classic account of the doctrine of Scripture: How [the Scripture] was given through [the human authors] is left …, if not without suggestion, yet without specific explanation. We seem safe only in inferring this much: that the gift of Scripture through its human authors took place by a process much more [...]

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Turretin on the necessity of verbal revelation

Turretin asks if it was really important that humankind receive verbal revelation. After all, isn’t human reason alone sufficient to lead a person to a happy life? The answer is No. . . . [T]he orthodox church has always believed . . . the revelation of the word of God to man to be absolutely [...]

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