Friday, December 23, 2022

Jack D. Kilcrease (Lutheran) on 2 Timothy 3:16 and 2 Peter 1:21

  

. . . many have observed that if we treat these texts as the starting point for positing inspiration in isolation from the historical authorization of Christ, we are in danger of making a circular argument (“the Bible is inspired because it says it is inspired”). Such a procedure also raises the question of why the Bible’s claim to be inspired should be believed over the Book of Mormon or the Qur’an, both of which also claims to be the Word of God. Hence, 2 Tm 3:16 and 2 Pt 1:21 are better used to explain what inspiration is than as a means of establishing the doctrine of inspiration in and of itself. (Jack D. Kilcrease, Holy Scripture [Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics 2; Ft. Wayne, Ind.: The Luther Academy, 2020], 130, emphasis in bold added)