Gray Inspiration of the Bible

Gray – Inspiration of the Bible

Inspiration of the Bible is a short 4 chapter work by Dr. Gray (President of Moody Bible Institute). His works are very scholarly. He examines the definition of Inspiration, the Extent, the Proof, and then difficulties and objections to Inspiration.

Inspiration of the Bible

Topic: Gray – Inspiration of the Bible
By James M. Gray, D. D.,
Dean Of Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Ill.

Summary

In this paper the authenticity and credibility of the Bible are assumed, by which is meant
(1), that its books were written by the authors to whom they are ascribed, and that their contents are in all material points as when they came from their hands; and
(2), that those contents are worthy of entire acceptance as to their statements of fact. Were there need to prove these assumptions, the evidence is abundant, and abler pens have dealt with it. Let it not be supposed, however, that because these things are assumed their relative importance is undervalued. On the contrary, they underlie inspiration, and, as President Patton says, come in on the ground floor. They have to do with the historicity of the Bible, which for us just now is the basis of its authority. Nothing can be settled until this is settled, but admitting its settlement which, all things considered, we now may be permitted to do, what can be of deeper interest than the question as to how far that authority extends? This is the inspiration question, and while so many have taken in hand to discuss the others, may not one be at liberty to discuss this? It is an old question, so old, indeed, as again in the usual recurrence of thought to have become new. Our fathers discussed it, it was the great question once upon a time, it was sifted to the bottom, and a great storehouse of fact, and argument, and illustration has been left for us to draw upon in a day of need.

For a long while the enemy’s attack has directed our energies to another part of the field, but victory there will drive us back here again. The other questions are outside of the Bible itself, this is inside. They lead men away from the contents of the book to consider how they came, this brings us back to consider what they are. Happy the day when the inquiry returns here, and happy the generation which has not forgotten how to meet it.

AIM: Anglican, Episcopal.
CIM: Bibliology, Inspiration.
Version: 1.1 June 16, 2014

Contents of the Inspiration of the Bible

The Inspiration of the Bible — Definition, Extent and Proof
1. Definition of Inspiration
2. Extent of Inspiration
3. Proof of Inspiration
A. Argument for the Old Testament
B. Argument for the New Testament
C. Argument for the Words
4. Difficulties and Objections

Download

Download “grayjm-inspiration-of-the-bible.gbk_.twm”

grayjm-inspiration-of-the-bible.gbk_.twm – Downloaded 3 times – 79.00 KB

http://www. biblecentre. net/solascript/art/gray/ins-Index. html

More Major Works on Inspiration-Inerrancy

More Minor Works mentioning Inspiration-Inerrancy

Tag Cloud on Bibliology

Agreement Principle | Allegories | Animation | Application Principle | Authority of Scripture | Bible | Bible Claims on Us | Bible Difficulties | Bible Foundation of Our Faith | Bible Student | Bible Study | Bible Survey | Bible Ultimate Standard of Conduct | Bible's Supernatural Origin | Biblical Authority | Biblical Hermeneutics | Biblical Languages | BIbliology | Canon | Canonicity | Christo-Centric Principle | Completeness of the Bible | Consequence Principle | context | Context Principle | Corrupting the Word of God | Covenant Principle | Criticism | Definition of Hermeneutics | Definition of Inspiration | Direct Statement Principle | Discrimination Principle | Dispensation Principle | Divine Authorship | Divine Will in Revelation Principle | Double Reference Principle | Election Principle | Eternal Word of God | Ethnic Division Principle | exact and literal meaning of the text | Exegesis | Exhortation Principle | Extent of Inspiration | Figurative Language | Figures of Speech | First Mention Principle | Fulfilled Prophecies | Full Mention Principle | Gap Principle | God's Subjective Revelation | Greek | Hebrew | Hermeneutics | Higher Criticism | History of Scripture | History of the Bible | Homiletics | Honesty of Writers of Bible | Human Reason | Human Willingness in Revelation Principle | Illumination | Illustrative Principle | Importance of Hermeneutics | Impossibility of Accounting for the Bible | Inerrancy | Inerrant Word of God | Influence of the Bible | Initiative Principle | Inspiration | Inspiration of Evasions | Inspiration of the NT | Inspiration of the OT | Interpretation | Interpreting Scripture | Interpretive Principles | Interpretive Process | Is the Bible in Danger | Jewish Canon | Language of Analogy | Leading Errors in Christianity | Light in Darkness | Lord Presented Four Ways in Old Testament | Mastering the Bible | Methods of Hermeneutics | Mistaken Scriptures | Mistakes in Interpretng Scripture | mistakes in the Bible | Names and Titles in Scriptures | Numerical Principle | Numerology | Obedient Listening | Objections to Inspiration | Origin of Scripture | Parable | Perennial Freshness of the Bible | Poems | Power of the Bible | Predictive Principle | Preservation | Principle of Literary Structure | Principle of Synthesis | Progressive Revelation Principle | Proof of Inspiration | Pseudepigraphic Writings | Purpose of Hermeneutics | Reason and Revelation | Recurrence in La of Repetition Principle | Revelation | Sacred Criticism | Scripture | Scriptures | Septuagint | Special Characteristics of the Bible | Structural Analysis | Structure of the Bible | Submission to God's Word | Subsequent Mention Principle | Symbolism | Symbols | Teaching of the Bible | testament | Textual Criticism | The Word Our Only Rule | Theopneustia | Three-fold Principle | Topic Study | Truth | Types | Typical Principle | Unity of the Bible | Value of Good Books | Value of Hermeneutics | Veracity | Veracity of Scripture | Verbal Inspiration | What the Disciples Saw | Wherein the Bible differs from all other books | Who gave us the Bible | Word of God | Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth