1. Sinlessness of Christ. The sinful nature was absent from His human nature.2. Divinity. The Virgin Birth made Incarnation possible or else He'd have been a mere human.3. Uniqueness. Not as Hercules, having 2 fathers, on divine, one human.4. Miraculous. The supernaturalness of the event. Not natural.5. One Person. 2 Natures but one person. If born of a human father and mother then a new person (dual personality is contradictory)6. Divine Act. Prophesied beforehand by Isai...
Can We Trust the Bible?
I am convinced that we can trust the Bible: trust it as the true revelation of God. The pluralism of “revelations” calls for the exercise of the law of non-contradiction. The modern relativistic, pluralistic mood looks at the Bible as another “truth”. But the fact is that there can never be an absolute infrastructure for relative truth. They always differ in their infrastructure though the superstructure might appear to be the same. The trustworthiness of the Bible is a very important issue, since it addresses issues of ultimate concern: Theology,...
A Basis For Depending On Scripture (Seminary Papers)
MDiv, CITS, Sept 11, 2000THOUGH there may be a way of depending on the Scripture (i.e., the Bible) without any adherence to or trust in its content (e.g. one may depend on the Bible for knowledge concerning what the early Christians believed and how they behaved, etc), dependence on Scripture, here, means dependence on the infallibility of and the reliability of Scriptural truth—and so to live life on the basis of what the Bible says concerning life. I contend, then, that the true basis of depending on the Scripture is the real fulfillment of the...
