Thursday, June 5, 2008

Scripture

The only way we know who Christ is and what his gospel means is through the Bible. Jesus withdrew his bodily presence from the world. In its place he left the Holy Spirit and promised that this Spirit would lead the disciples into all truth (Jn 16:13). But Jesus himself was that truth, (Jn 14:6), and so he promised that the Spirit would testify of him and glorify him. This ministry of the Spirit in which he points to Christ led to the preaching of the gospel by the apostles, and to the making of a reliable record of their witness in the New Testament. This means that what the Bible says is what God wants it to say. The Bible is infallible in the sense that it is the Word of the God of truth and it will not lead us astray.

Graeme Goldsworthy, According to Plan, Pg. 50

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