Geerhardus Vos on The Inspiration of Scripture
March 22, 2008
Quote from A Geerhardus Vos Anthology:
The conception of partial inspiration is a modern figment having no support in what the Bible teaches about its own makeup. Whenever the New Testament speaks about the inspiration of the Old, it is always in the most absolute, comprehensive terms. Consulting the consciousness of the Scriptures themselves in this matter, we soon learn that it is either “plenary inspiration” or nothing at all. — Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments (Banner of Truth: 2007), 13.
Resources:
- A Geerhardus Vos Anthology
- Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments
- Outlines of Theology
- Systematic Theology
Definitions:
- Plenary Inspiration: A divine influence full and sufficient to secure its end. The end in this case secured is the perfect infallibility of the Scriptures in every part, as a record of fact and doctrine both in thought and verbal expression. So that although they come to us through the instrumentality of the minds, heart, imaginations, consciences, and wills of men, they are nevertheless in the strictest sense the word of God. — A. A. Hodge, Outlines of Theology (Banner of Truth: 1999), 66. The idea that all the words of Scripture are God’s words, plenary meaning “full.” — Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology (Zondervan), 1251.
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March 22nd, 2008 at 11:50 am
Perfect timing, adn thank you. I have been discussing this very point on a “Chrisitian” board and this do the job better than I have.