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THEORIES OF INSPIRATION AND REVELATION

THEORIES OF INSPIRATION AND REVELATION. The Liberal Views: The Bible contains the Word of God. The Right Wing: The Illumination View. Illumination view of inspiration claim that scripture contains the noble insights of great people of faith. It equates illumination to inspiration.

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THEORIES OF INSPIRATION AND REVELATION

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  1. THEORIES OF INSPIRATION AND REVELATION

  2. The Liberal Views:The Bible contains the Word of God

  3. The Right Wing:The Illumination View Illumination view of inspiration claim that scripture contains the noble insights of great people of faith. It equates illumination to inspiration. It claim divine inspiration for only certain portions of the Bible that the writers could not have known naturally.

  4. The Left Wing:The Intuition View This view holds that the writers were inspired only in the sense that from time to time their natural religious insight and genius were deepened and heightened to discover “divine truths”. It is human intuition rather than divine revelation.

  5. Objections to the Liberal Views Man is the most active, if not the only agent actively involved in the process of the discovery of divine truth. It makes human reason or feeling the final judge of determining which part of the Bible is divine and which part is human. It is not biblical. It neglects what the Bible says about itself.

  6. The Neo-Orthodox Views:The Bible becomes the Word of God

  7. The Right Wing:The Existential View The Bible as a means of a personal encounter by God with man in an act of revelation and the meaningless ink blots on the pages leap from the Bible to speak concretely and meaningfully. At this “moment of meaning”, the Bible becomes the word of God to the individual.

  8. The Left Wing:The Demythologizing View This view holds that the Bible must be stripped and divested of religious myth in order to get at the real message of God’s self-giving love in Christ. Hence, the Bible becomes a revelation when proper demythological interpretation is done.

  9. Objections to the Neo-Orthodox Views The Neo-Orthodox View, like the Liberal View, is naturalistic. It sets aside the supernatural nature of the Bible. The locus of revelation is too subjective. Depends on the human agent. It is certainly unbiblical. It failed to consider what the Bible said about itself. “God- breathed” writings.

  10. The Conservative Views:The Bible is the Word of God

  11. The Right Wing:The Verbal Dictation View Every word of the Bible was given, according to this view, to the prophet who served as a secretary for the dictation of God. The illustration of Moses is sometimes cited as the modus operandi of inspiration (Exodus 24:4), which amount to mechanical dictation.

  12. The Left Wing:The Dynamic View This view suggested that it is not the words but the thoughts or ideas that God inspired. To them, God gave the thought and the prophet was ‘free’ to record it ‘in his own words.’ It explains the obvious personality and literary differences but maintain it to be God’s word because the message came from God.

  13. Objections to the Conservative Views Verbal Dictation View It does not accord with what the Bible teaches that God used human agents not as passive receptors but as active contributors in its writing. It denies the presence of differences in personality, literary styles, etc. which are obvious in every book of the Bible.

  14. Dynamic View It explains the Bible’s humanity but in so doing weakens its divinity. The Verbal dictation deifies the human aspect of the Bible while the Dynamic view humanizes the divine.

  15. The Biblical View:The Verbal Plenary Inspiration View

  16. The alternative, and the one that is biblical, is that ALL THE WORDS (verbal) which are written are God-breathed (pasagrapheTheopneustos – 2 Tim. 3:16). God gave FULL (plenary) expression to His thought in the words of the biblical record. He guided in the very choice of the words used within the personality and the cultural complex of the writers so that, in some inscrutable manner, the Bible is the word of God while being the words of men.

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