BOTH ARE THE ETERNAL WORD
Returning to the parallelism between Christ and
the Scriptures as an argument for the inerrancy of the Bible it should be noted
that the starting point for both sides of the parallelism is the eternal Word
of God. On the one side is the eternal Word as the Son of God, the second
Person of the triune Godhead (John 1:1-2); and on the other side is the eternal
Word as the eternal decree and plan of God, which He is executing and has
expressed in the Bible (Psalm 119:89, 152; Acts 15:18). God’s nature and being
have been manifested to men in the Lord Jesus Christ (John 1;18; 14:9; Col.
1:15; Heb. 1:3), and God’s thoughts and plan have been manifested to men in the
Bible as God’s Word (Gen. 18:17; Deut. 29:29; John 16:12-15). (John A. Witmer,
“The Inerrancy of the Bible,” in Walvoord, A Tribute: Doctrinal Essays in
Honor of 30 Years of Academic Leadership, ed. Donald K. Campbell [Chicago:
Moody Press, 1982], 122)
