I just finished listening to yesterday’s edition of the White Horse Inn radio program hosted by Michael Horton.  This episode is available for free download or you can listen to it directly at the WHI home page here: http://www.whitehorseinn.org/

As always, a very thoughtful discussion on just what plenary verbal inspiration is.  One thing it isn’t, as pointed out by Horton, is mechanical dictation which seems to be a common misconception among those holding to thought inpiration.

I hope those who have some time will check it out.

Thanks Aaron! This topic is definitely one that causes tention when I talk to my Adventist family. The March 15th episode of Office Hours is another good discussion on the topic of the doctrine of Scripture (although I haven’t been able to listen to all of it yet).

Nate

Here is another great post on the inspiration of scripture from the Team Pyro blog:

http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2010/05/is-this-central-issue-in-christian_06.html

Stan

Here is an excellent article by Michael Dever, the pastor of Capitol Baptist church, on the history of the inerrancy debate:

http://www.9marks.org/ejournal/inerrancy-bible-annotated-bibliography

What is the best book on inerrancy according to Dever?

I’ve saved the best for last. If I could just recommend one book on the inerrancy of the Bible it would undoubtedly be this one—John Wenham, Christ and the Bible (Tyndale Press, 1972 [UK]; IVP, 1973 [US]).Wenham’s book has been through three editions and makes the simple point that our trust in Scripture is to be a part of our following Christ, because that is the way that Christ treated Scripture—as true, and therefore authoritative. (Robert Lightner, a professor of Systematic Theology at Dallas Seminary published a similar book a few years later, A Biblical Case for Total Inerrancy: How Jesus Viewed the Old Testament [Kregel, 1978].)Wenham had first put these ideas in print with a little Tyndale pamphlet in 1953 called Our Lord’s View of the Old Testament. In Christ and the Bible, Wenham, an Anglican evangelical who taught Greek for many years at Oxford, has done us all a great service in providing us with a book which understands that we do not come by our adherence to Scripture fundamentally from the inductive resolutions of discrepancies, but from the teaching of the Lord Jesus.Only because of the Living Word may we finally know to trust the Written Word.May God use these resources of those who’ve gone before us to equip and encourage us in so trusting.
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Do you remember the last time John Wenham’s name came up on this blog?

It was on the very controversial “Hell” thread.

As someone who takes the minority view on this topic, I find it encouraging that such a distinguished scholar who believes in the inerrancy of scripture can find significant flaws in the traditional doctrine of eternal conscious torment. He wrote a book called “Facing Hell” in which he said this:

“I believe that endless torment is a hideous and unscriptural doctrine which has been a terrible burden on the mind of the church for many centuries and a terrible blot on her presentation of the gospel. I should indeed be happy if, before I die, I could help in sweeping it away”.
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I echo Wenham’s thoughts, and I thank Michael Dever for reminding us of the great scholarship of John Wenham.

Stan