Biblical Inerrancy
“A communication can be in error only if it fails to live up to the intention of its author...if they fulfill this intention we regard them as inerrant.” The purpose of biblical writers was, “to report the happenings and meanings of the redemptive acts of God in history so that men might be made wise unto salvation.”
Grade A
Imagine a family-owned sausage factory. The head is a very scrupulous, clean, proper man. One day as he is walking in the plant, he notices that as a son is dumping in pork, a piece falls on the floor. Does he throw it away, or back into the machine? He throws it away. The sausage that is produced is labeled “Grade A” and sent to market. Across the street is a corporately- owned and operated sausage factory. The floors are dirty, the machines are seldom washed. A supervisor sees a worker spill a piece of pork on the floor. Does he throw it away? No. He puts it back into the machine. The supervisor is happy. It too is labeled “Grade A” and sent to market. Both products nourish you, but which would you want to eat?
“It doesn’t matter if the human authors put a little dirt in with the rest of God’s Word. We can still preach the Bible and people will get saved and grow.” When the son takes over the first factory, he will likely follow in the father’s tradition, but when the worker takes over for the supervisor, things can only get worse.
I Believe It
D. L. Moody often told this experience:
“Mr. Moody, what do you do with that?” “I do not do anything with it.” “How do you understand it?” “I do not understand it.” “How do you explain it.” “I do not explain it.” “What do you do with it?” “I do not do anything with it.” “You do not believe it, do you?” “Oh, yes, I believe it.” “Well, you don’t accept anything you can’t understand, do you?” “Yes, I certainly do. There are lots of things I do not understand, but I believe them. I do not know anything about higher mathematics, but I believe in them. I do not understand astronomy, but I believe in astronomy...A man told me a while ago he would not believe a thing he had never seen, and I asked him if he had ever seen his own brain? Did you ever notice that the things at which men cavil most are the very things on which Christ has set His seal?”
I Stand by Jonah
When a liberal preacher declared that the story of Jonah and the whale was a myth, reporters asked Mr. Moody his opinion of the question.
His reply, contained in four words, was telegraphed far and wide: “I stand by Jonah.”
Two Cars
Dr. Albert Schweitzer one evening at his hospital in Africa announced, “As you all know there are only two cars in a 75-mile radius. Today the inevitable happened. We will soon be working on the injured. If anyone wishes to work on the machines, he may.”
Quigley’s Law
- If you take off your right-hand glove in very cold weather, the key will be in your left-hand pocket.
Resources
- Immortality, the Other Side of Death, G. R. Habermas, J. P. Moreland, Nelson, 1992, pp. 209ff
Post Partum Abortions
- Syndicated columnist Linda Bowles’s summary of hundreds of cases of “mothers throwing their babies off bridges, out windows, or into garbage cans.
Resource
- C. Swindoll, Three Steps Forward, p. 117.
Inferiority
A man went to a psychiatrist and complained about an inferiority complex. The doctor listened to him for a while, then gave him a good news/bad news diagnosis:
“The good news,” said the doctor, “Is that you don’t have a complex. The bad news is—you are inferior!”
- Gary Inrig