Posts from April 2025
Nothing But The Truth
Nothing But the Truth In his Modern Man and his Categories of Thought, C S Lewis makes this perceptive observation: Man is becoming as narrowly ‘practical’ as the irrational animals. In lecturing to popular audiences, I have repeatedly found it almost impossible to make them understand that I recommended Christianity because I thought its affirmations to be objectively true. They are simply not interested in questions of truth or falsehood. They only want to know if it will be comforting,…
God Breathed – Part 4
God-Breathed Scripture –Part 4 Paul’s assertion that “All Scripture (graphē) is inspired by God” (2 Tim 3:16) follows his reminder to Timothy that he had known “the sacred writings” from “childhood” (2 Tim 3:15), so it is natural to understand graphē here as a reference to the Old Testament writings. Wesley reminds us that “These only were extant when Timothy was an infant”, and Wayne Grudem points out that graphē “occurs fifty-one times in the New Testament and…