Linked Together: Scripture
Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 8:41PM 
Canon
The last of Michael Kruger’s Ten Basic Facts about the New Testament Canon That Every Christian Should Memorize is this: Early Christians Believed that Canonical Books Were Self-Authenticating. (You’ll find the other nine facts in this series here.)
But seriously, instead of playing around with blog posts, you should just read all of Kruger’s book Canon Revisited.
Inerrancy
What does the term inerrancy mean? John Frame answers:
We should always remember that Scripture is, for the most part, ordinary language rather than technical language. Certainly, it is not of the modern scientific genre. In Scripture, God intends to speak to everybody. To do that most efficiently, he (through the human writers) engages in all the shortcuts that we commonly use among ourselves to facilitate conversation: imprecisions, metaphors, hyperbole, parables, etc. Not all of these convey literal truth, or truth with a precision expected in specialized contexts; but they all convey truth, and in the Bible there is no reason to charge them with error.
(Quoted by Justin Taylor.)
Authority
What does Paul mean in 1 Corinthians 7:12 when he writes, “To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her”? Isn’t all of scripture from the Lord? It depends, writes Dane Ortland, on what you mean by “from the Lord.”
Most broadly, the whole Bible is certainly from “from the Lord” if by “the Lord” we mean the triune God—the 66 books of the Bible are God’s self-testimony to a fallen world of his identity and his mighty deeds in our space-and-time history for the sake of sinners. Every word is a word from God.
But not all of Scripture is “from the Lord” if by “the Lord” we mean the Lord Jesus in his earthly teaching—and it is Jesus that Paul has in mind when he speaks of “the Lord” in 1 Corinthians 7.
(The Gospel Coalition Blog)
Reader Comments (1)
Hello Rebecca, I connected to your site from Theology for Girls. I am so happy to have been led to both of your sites! I am a lone voice among the women in my Asheville NC PCA Church (Presbyterian Church in America) for loving Reformed Theology and believe it should be taught to the people. We are a congregation of appx. 500. I won't go into all the details, but pray for my husband and me as we have our second meeting with our pastors this month to continue our plea that we return to our Reformed tradidion and stop following the patterns of churches without doctrine.