| 3 Its Claim For Itself It's important to know what the Bible says about itself. If the authors of Scripture had not claimed ot speak for God, it would be presumptuous for us to make that claim for them. We would also have a different kind of problem. We would hoave a collection of insolved mysteries, embodied in historical and ethical literature. But we would not have a book that has inspired the building of countless churches and synagogues all over the world. A Bible that did not claim to speak on behalf of God would not have become foundational to the faith of hundreds of millions of Christians and Jews (2 Peter 1:16-21). But with much supporting evidence and argument, the Bible's authors did calim to be inspired by God. Because millions have staked their persent and eternal well-being on those claims, the Bible cannot be a good book if its authors consisitently lied about their source of information. |