ETS 2008 – G.K. Beale on Biblical Inerancy

Date December 4, 2008 Posted by Roger Overton

I was going to write a summary of G.K. Beale's excellent lecture that argued for inerrancy based on the book of Revelation, but Jim Hamilton beat me to it.

Here's a teaser:

This year’s Crossway Lecture at ETS was presented by G. K. Beale.
Beale argued that Inerrancy is not a scholastic theological deduction
made by interpreters of the Bible, but rather that it is an exegetical
observation of a theological deduction that at least one biblical author has already made within the text of the Bible itself. Citing the logic of innerancy: 

  • God is true and trustworthy, and he never lies, deceives, or makes mistakes. 
  • The Bible is God’s revelation of himself. 
  • Therefore the Bible never lies, deceives, or makes mistakes. 

Beale argued that John has already made this argument and drawn this
conclusion for us in the book of Revelation. The gist of Beale’s
argument went like this:

Revelation 3:14 presents Jesus identifying himself as “the Amen, the faithful and true witness.”


Read the whole post. (HT: JT)


Related posts:

  1. A Defense of Biblical Inerrancy, Part 5
  2. A Defense of Biblical Inerrancy, Part 1
  3. A Defense of Biblical Inerrancy, Part 2
  4. A Defense of Biblical Inerrancy, Part 6
  5. A Defense of Biblical Inerrancy, Part 3
  6. A Defense of Biblical Inerrancy, Part 4

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