In response to Luke Timothy Johnson’s claim that “Paul and his contemporaries did not confine “inspiration” to those literary compositions that are now found in the Bible”:
A doctrine of Scripture has no interest in making a
unique, much less exclusive, claim to divine revelation, since the biblical God
reveals himself in manifold ways, as we have seen. The objection also trades on
the ambiguity of the term “inspiration,” for of course prophets and seers of
all sorts could be said to be “inspired.” But that sort of personal inspiration
is very different from a God-breathed Scripture, which is unique to the
biblical books. To carry his objection Johnson needs to show the author of II
Timothy himself accepted other literary compositions of God-breathed, which is
unprovable. (William Lane Craig, Systematic Philosophical Theology [Croydon:
Wiley Blackwell, 2025], 1:93 n. 34)
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