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The Word of God
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The Church Doctrine
Of Inspiration, by
B. B. Warfield
The question
is not, whether the doctrine of plenary inspiration has difficulties
to face. The question is, whether these difficulties are greater
than the difficulty of believing that the whole church of God from
the beginning has been deceived in her estimate of the Scriptures
committed to her charge--are greater than the difficulty of believing
that the college of the apostles, yes and the Christ Himself at
their head, were themselves deceived as to the nature of those Scriptures
which they gave to the Church as its precious possession, and have
deceived with them twenty Christian centuries, and are likely to
deceive twenty more before our boasted advancing light has corrected
their error--are greater than the difficulty of believing that we
have no sure foundation for our faith and no certain warrant for
our trust in Christ for salvation."
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The
Holy Scriptures - The Canon and Inspiration
"It
is the most important of all books, because, as a matter of historical
fact, this book, more than any other force, has molded the character
of the great nations of the world and given birth to what we call
the modern or Western civilization; because all historic Churches,
with one accord, declare it to be the foundation of their creeds
- declare that this book is the Word of God; because, in spite of
all our divisions, the whole Church really accepts this book as
the only infallible and divinely authoritative rule of our faith
and practice; and because it is, between all Christians, the standard
of appeal on all subjects of debate, the only common ground upon
which we stand, the only court of last resort."
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Sola Scriptura, by
A. A. Hodge
"That
Scripture is the only infallible voice in the church, and is to
be interpreted, in its own light, and with the gracious help of
the Holy Ghost, who is promised to every Christian (1 John 2:20-27),
by each individual for himself; with the assistance, though not
by the authority, of his fellow Christians. Creeds and confessions,
as to form, bind only those who voluntarily profess them, and as
to matter, they bind only so far as they affirm truly what the Bible
teaches, and because the Bible does so teach."
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The
Protestant Rule Of Faith, by
Charles Hodge
"ALL Protestants
agree in teaching that "the word of God, as contained in the
Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the only infallible
rule of faith and practice."
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The Scripture Sufficient Without Unwritten Tradition,
by Thomas Manton
"Proposition.-The
Scripture is a sufficient rule of Christian Faith, or a record of
all necessary Christian doctrines, without any supplement of unwritten
traditions, as containing any necessary matter of faith, and is
thus far sufficient for the decision of all controversies."
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The Formation Of The Canon Of The New Testament,
by B. B. Warfield
In
order to obtain a correct understanding of what is called the formation
of the Canon of the New Testament, it is necessary to begin by fixing
very firmly in our minds one fact which is obvious enough when attention
is once called to it. That is, that the Christian church did not
require to form for itself the idea of a "canon," - or,
as we should more commonly call it, of a "Bible," - that
is, of a collection of books given of God to be the authoritative
rule of faith and practice. It inherited this idea from the Jewish
church, along with the thing itself, the Jewish Scriptures, or the
"Canon of the Old Testament." The church did not grow
up by natural law: it was founded. And the authoritative teachers
sent forth by Christ to found His church, carried with them, as
their most precious possession, a body of Divine Scriptures, which
they imposed on the church that they founded as its code of law.
No reader of the New Testament can need proof of this; on every
page of that book is spread the evidence that from the very beginning
the Old Testament was as cordially recognized as law by the Christian
as by the Jew. The Christian church thus was never without a "Bible"
or a "canon."
- Scripture
and Tradition, by Dr.
Sinclair Ferguson
"The
year 1996 marks the four hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death
of Martin Luther, whose famous Ninety-Five Theses sparked off a religious
fire in Europe which the Roman Catholic Church was unable to extinguish.
The theological conflict which ensued has often been characterized as
focusing on the so-called four- fold "alones" of the Reformation:
sola gratia, solo Christo, sola fide, sola Scriptura -- salvation is
by grace alone, in Christ alone, by faith alone, and all that is necessary
for salvation is taught in Scripture alone. Each of these principles,
and certainly all four together, served as a canon by which the teaching
of the Roman Catholic Church was assessed and found to be wanting."
- The Sufficiency
of the Written Word
An
excellent article answering the Modern Roman Catholic
Apologist, written by Dr. John F. MacArthur Jr.
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Calvin On Continuing Revelation
"Those
who, rejecting Scripture, imagine that they have some peculiar way
of penetrating to God, are to be deemed not so much under the influence
of error as madness. For certain giddy men have lately appeared,
who, while they make a great display of the superiority of the Spirit,
reject all reading of the Scriptures themselves, and deride the
simplicity of those who only delight in what they call the dead
and deadly letter."
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The Inspiration of Scripture, by Loraine Boettner
"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 only a
collection of human writings, perhaps considerably above the average
in its spiritual and moral teachings but nevertheless containing
many errors, we will develop a radically different conception of
Christianity, if, indeed, what we then have can legitimately be
called Christianity. Hence we can hardly over-estimate the importance
of a correct doctrine concerning the inspiration of the Scriptures."
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The Word of God,
by Michael Bremmer
"The question is not, whether the doctrine of
plenary inspiration has difficulties to face. The question is, whether
these difficulties are greater than the difficulty of believing
that the whole church of God from the beginning has been deceived
in her estimate of the Scriptures committed to her charge--are greater
than the difficulty of believing that the college of the apostles,
yes and the Christ Himself at their head, were themselves deceived
as to the nature of those Scriptures which they gave to the Church
as its precious possession, and have deceived with them twenty Christian
centuries, and are likely to deceive twenty more before our boasted
advancing light has corrected their error--are greater than the
difficulty of believing that we have no sure foundation for our
faith and no certain warrant for our trust in Christ for salvation"
(The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible, p. 128).
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The Cessation of the Charismata, by
B. B. Warfield
"Everywhere, the Apostolic Church was marked
out as itself a gift from God, by showing forth the possession of
the Spirit in appropriate works of the Spirit--miracles of healing
and miracles of power, miracles of knowledge, whether in the form
of prophecy or of the discerning of spirits, miracles of speech,
whether of the gift of tongues or of their interpretation. The Apostolic
Church was characteristically a miracle-working church.
How
long did this state of things continue?"
From Christian
Resources:
A 3 Volume Biblical
and Historical Defense of
the Reformation Principle of Sola Scriptura
by David T. King
and William Webster
Volume I
A Biblical Defense
of the Reformation
Principle of Sola Scriptura
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Volume II
An Historical Defense of the Reformation Principle of Sola Scriptura
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Volume III
The Writings of the Church Fathers Affirming
the Reformation Principle of Sola Scriptura
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