On the Self-Validation of the Scriptures In reverse chronological order: “Scripture is God’s Word, and therefore it is self-attesting.” John Frame in Scott Oliphint and Lane Tipton, Eds. Revelation and Reason (Presbyterian and Reformed, 2007), 124. “For us to accept the authority of Scripture is to confess that we are obliged to believe what it [...]

“A Valid Apologetic” Herman Bavinck in Prolegomena, 515, 1895 “In saying this, however, we have already indicated the position from which alone a sound defense of the truth can be undertaken. Apologetics cannot precede faith and does not attempt a priori to argue the truth of revelation. It assumes the truth and belief in the [...]

What takes the place of our worldview when Genesis 1-2 is dismissed? One of Christianity’s greatest minds gives an introductory answer to that question: …In these days a very different construction is put upon these things, and this is done in the name of science and allegedly with the authority of science. And as this [...]

Is every man honestly seeking the truth when it comes to the Bible? Are people like Bart Ehrman, Dan Barker, Hitchens, Harris and the gang weighing the evidence from a fair and unbiased perspective without presuppositions? Surely, with fancy degrees and popular publications, they are approaching the matter neutrally and coming to honest conclusions, perhaps? [...]

I was doing some research into Herman Bavinck’s view of inspiration and inerrancy, when I came across yet another prophetic blurb by Bavinck: He who takes into account the lesson of evolution quickly comes to the conclusion that the present-day system of education is one great error. Up to now men have given almost exclusive [...]