Question: [makes a comment about how the Bible inspires and reveals itself to a person]
Answer: I want to say that we shouldn’t ever lapse into this
kind of language of “the Bible’s becoming God’s Word for me,” or “When I
read it, it becomes God’s Word for me because God speaks to me through
it.” I think that’s quite incorrect. God could speak to you through the
telephone book or through The Shack, but that wouldn’t make it
God’s Word. The Bible is God’s Word. The whole idea is that the Bible is
a propositional revelation. If it were lost, forgotten in some vault,
and nobody ever read it, it would still be the God-breathed,
propositional revelation of God. So let’s not lapse into this language
of the Bible’s becoming God’s Word to me or anything of that sort. That
is to diminish the degree to which this is a verbal, propositional
revelation from God.Read more: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/defenders-2-podcast/transcript/s2-3#ixzz2KJfNIbtc
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