Satan’s plan for “the Quelle lie”

[menageriekeeper]

Ya'll think the writers of the Bible ever complain that God was dictating faster than they could write?



Oh and the ten commandments weren't dictated, but written on the stones by God Himself. Which brings to mind the question:

How come we don't believe that God wrote the rest of the Book and simply handed it over to His messengers? Isn't that just as easy (or easier) than believing He dictated it?

 

[Mexdeaf]

How come we don't believe that God wrote the rest of the Book and simply handed it over to His messengers? Isn't that just as easy (or easier) than believing He dictated it?

Because that is not the Scripture's testimony concerning their own transmission.

 

[preachinjesus]

Because that is not the Scripture's testimony concerning their own transmission.

:thumbs:

Precisely what I was going to say. I would only add, because we know that this is not the manner by which each individual book of the Bible was composed, transmitted among believers, and authorized by the Church.

 

[12strings]

Oh and the ten commandments weren't dictated, but written on the stones by God Himself. Which brings to mind the question:

How come we don't believe that God wrote the rest of the Book and simply handed it over to His messengers? Isn't that just as easy (or easier) than believing He dictated it?

I believe one set was written by moses, the other by God.

Also, since the bible itself says that People wrote it, not God, that's why we don't think he did that.

 

[John of Japan]

The so-called "dictation theory" was originally a liberal smear at the fundamental doctrine of verbal-plenary inspiration, originally called the "mechanical dictation theory" by said liberals. Louis Gaussen (The Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures) and John R. Rice (Our God-Breathed Book, the Bible) actually used the word dictation in their books on the subject though not in the way it was meant by the liberals, with Rice specifically taking two chapters to deny "mechanical dictation."

Whatever semantics you use, the belief in verbal plenary inspiration is an extremely important evangelical doctrine based on many verses, most notably on the Greek word theopneustos ("God-breathed") in 2 Tim. 3:16 and nowhere else in or out of the NT.

Verbal plenary inspiration is also the basis for the doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture. It is so important that at the 1974 International Conference on World Evangelism in Lausanne, none other than Francis Schaeffer set it as a line which must not be crossed if we wish to remain evangelical.