Tumutugon tayo sa isang common objection concerning the Bible na ganito: “Bakit ko paniniwalaan ang Bible eh gawa lang naman yan ng tao.” Like I said sa previous episode, this simple statement ay nakatayo sa maraming assumptions na kailangang itest. Hindi po nangangahulugan na mali ang mga assumptions. Ang point ko lang po ay this statement is not as simple as it appears. May lalim din po siya at marami siyang na-challenge sa katotohan ng salita ng Diyos at hindi lang sa ito'y man-made. Isa sa na-challenge niya ay diniscuss ko last episode where I discussed yung attack niya sa authority ng Scripture. I argued that the authority of Scripture is affirmed by Scripture itself and made some samplings of the risk that people took to uphold that via martyrdom at marami pang iba.
Ngayon po we will talk about another of its quality by talking about one of Scriptures cardinal doctrines: the doctrine of inerrancy. Inerrancy comes from two Latin words combined to mean “no error.” We refer to the doctrine more specifically as “Scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.”* Sa madaling salita po, kung naglahad ang Bibliya na tama, samakatuwid tama ito; kung ano ang ina affirm ng Bible na false, false siya. Bukod sa naka anchor ito sa reliability ng facts, ito ay higit sa lahat naka anchor sa katotohanan na ang mga Salitang ito ay kapahayagan ng Diyos at Kaniyang kinasihan ng Kaniyang Banal na Espiritu. There are many ways to defend the doctrine of inerrancy at napakarami na ring mga napakagagandang aklat ang nagpaliwanag nito. Subalit for the purpose of brevity, we will present here ng tatlo sa pinakaimportante paliwanag na alam ko.We will do it through a Trinitarian argument from the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.
Una, it is truthful because God the Father. Jesus would refer to the Father as bearing the testimony of Himself in the Old Testament, “If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another who bears witness of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesses of me is true . . . And the Father himself, who sent me, has testified of me (John 5:31,32,37). What testimony was Jesus referring to? I think it is the testimony of God in the Old Testament. He explained his ministry and calling to the two disciples in the road to Emmaus. In Luke 24:27 Luke explains that “beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, [Jesus] explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.” This was the testimony He was talking about.
Having said that, the idea of the Father’s divine testimony is further attested in the Old Testament by Jesus’ life, death and resurection. Yan ang ating pangalawang paliwanag. According to BEDBT explains that divine testimony in the OT, “refers to the revelatory self-witness of God to his people.”† Again, Jesus attests his very life, death and resurrection on the prophetic testimony of the Father. The validation of these truth claims of the Father is shown in Scripture “in its fulfillment [because] the history of prophetic fulfillment also guarantees its reliability.”‡ So this is the reason why Jesus would talk about the fulfilment of the Word of God this way, “For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished (Matthew 5:18).
So kung ang Ama ang Diyos ng katotohanan, at Siya ang source ng Salita ng Diyos the Bible must be inerrant. If Jesus is the Son of God and napapatunayan ito sa salita ng Diyos at sinabi ni Kristo at pinatotohanan ni Kristo ang testimonya ng Ama sa pamamagitan ng kaniyang salita at gawa, pinapatotohanan niya ang buong katotohanan ng Salita ng Diyos.
Sa ganitong pagtatanghal sa Salita ng Diyos matatagpuan din natin ang ating pangatlong paliwanag na ang kapahayagang tungkol sa Banal na Espiritu in relation to the truthfulness of the Word of God. Sa 2 Timothy 3:16 ang salita ng Diyos ay “God-breathe” a Spirit-breathe book. David in 2 Samuel 23:2 said, “"The Spirit of the LORD spoke through me; his word was on my tongue.” Sa 2 Peter 1:21 it is said that the prophets “were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” Ang simple na logic is that God is truth.
So maski pa yang affirmation na yan ay sa geography, history, kalagayan ng ating kaluluwa, etc yan ang katotohanan. Paliwanag ni Grudem,
The words in the Bible are God’s words, and that therefore to disbelieve or disobey any word in Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God. . . [T]he Bible clearly teaches that God cannot lie or speak falsely (2 Sam. 7:28; Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18). Therefore, all the words in Scripture are claimed to be completely true and without error in any part (Num. 23:19; Pss. 12:6; 119:89, 96; Prov. 30:5; Matt. 24:35). God’s words are, in fact, the ultimate standard of truth (John 17:17). Especially relevant at this point are those Scripture texts that indicate the total truthfulness and reliability of God’s words. “The words of the LORD are words that are pure silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times” (Ps. 12:6, author’s transl.), indicates the absolute reliability and purity of Scripture. Similarly, “Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him” (Prov. 30:5), indicates the truthfulness of every word that God has spoken. Though error and at least partial falsehood may characterize the speech of every human being, it is the characteristic of God’s speech even when spoken through sinful human beings that it is never false and that it never affirms error: “God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should repent” (Num. 23:19) was spoken by sinful Balaam specifically about the prophetic words that God had spoken through his own lips.§__________
* Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, 67
† Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, sv "Testimony"; accessed at https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/bakers-evangelical-dictionary/testimony.html
‡ Ibid.
§ Grudem, 67.
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