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Several Announcements

Stay informed about upcoming review sessions, lectures, and class cancellations. Also, explore the concepts of revelation and inspiration in scripture. All relevant dates, times, and locations provided.

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Several Announcements

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  1. Several Announcements • Please turn off your cell phone! • Keri’s review sessions will be Tuesdays 7:00-8:00 in Chase 26. • Matt’s will be Mondays at 7:00 in J406, starting 26 January • Reminder – next Wednesday evening at 7:15 in J237 – a lecture on the Big Bang • No class on Monday • Everything OK with Blackboard?

  2. Psalm 100:5 • KI TOV ADONAI • Because good (is) the LORD • LE’OLAM ḤASDO (2X) • To eternity (is) His hesed • VE’AD DOR VE-DOR (2X) • And unto generation and generation • EMUNATO • His faithfulness

  3. Revelation and Inspiration: Authority, Canon, and Text

  4. Review and Preview Questions • What does the acronym TaNaKh stand for? • What doctrine is eminently clear in Psalm 19? • Salvation through atonement • Redemption in the payment of a price • Revelation in nature and Scripture • Creation and sustaining of the universe

  5. What doctrine is clearly taught in Psalm 19? Salvation through atonement Redemption in the payment of a price Revelation in nature and Scripture Creation and sustaining of the universe

  6. A Time for Questions • Why is it imperative to have a sound understanding regarding the nature and authority of Scripture? • What are your most burning questions about the writing of Scripture? • Do you think they are questions for which there are credible answers?

  7. “Landscape” by Rembrandt

  8. Definition of Revelation • Divine self-disclosure which teaches otherwise inaccessible truth about God and draws forth a response • Another way of presenting the concept is “divine communicative action” – the words of Scripture both convey the truth about God’s actions and are themselves “active”

  9. Presuppositions • A divine Being (God) has chosen to communicate • God is personal, His revelation is intentional, and there is a need on the part of His finite creatures • The purpose of revelation, communication of truth, is accomplished • Words are an adequate, although far from perfect, medium • Why? Because words structured the very fabric of the created order and thus reality can be expressed in words • Word re-present natural phenomena • Words present the supernatural

  10. God initiates the process • He is infinite • He is holy

  11. Categories to help us think about revelation • General revelation – God’s revelation of His divine power and attributes through creation Psalm 19 Romans 1:18-20 Romans 2:12-15

  12. Categories • Special revelation – verbal statement of primarily propositional truth (otherwise unknowable) regarding God’s character and will, the meaning of human existence, the nature of the spiritual realm • “Propositional” truth refers to sentences that have truth or falsehood implicit in them; clearly the Scriptures have more than this • Word in the Person of Jesus Christ • Word of Scripture • By mighty acts and by prophetic, instructive word

  13. Inspiration • Special act of the Holy Spirit by which He guided the writers of Scripture so that their words should convey the thoughts He wished conveyed, should bear a proper relationship to the thoughts in the rest of Scripture, and should be infallible in thought, fact, doctrine and judgment

  14. Expansion of definition • Inspiration is a unique combination of cultural backgrounds and personalities of human authors and the Spirit’s enriching those human capacities to convey Truth; it is both culturally relevant and transcends cultures

  15. What does the Bible say about itself? • Aristotle’s dictum: The benefit of the doubt is to be given to the document itself, not arrogated by the critic to himself. • “Thus saith the Lord” • II Timothy 3:14-17 • II Peter 1:20-21 • The words of Jesus – Matthew 5:18 and John 14:26 • Prophets and apostles – Ephesians 2:20

  16. Authority • Derives from inspiration • We submit to that authority as the rule of faith and practice

  17. Canon • “reed” • Measuring stick • Something with which we measure • Criteria for determining whether certain books were authoritative • Our rule of faith and practice

  18. Characteristics of the Text as We Have It • Copied and translated • Composed of different sources • Different genres: Torah (instructions), history, poetry, prophecy • Represents various cultural contexts

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