Musings of a Snickerdoodle

This is an excellent look into the transmission of God's Word.   Instead of starting out with material proofs or by appealing to ones feelings regarding the inspiration of the Bible,   Geisler and Nix hold the Holy Scriptures as the ultimate authority and use the Bible as the main and first proof of its own inspiration and authenticity.   Their method reminds me of a quote I read once that went something along these lines: "The Scriptures revolve on their own axis.   They do not disdain indirect assistance, from secular investigations; but they mainly depend on their own inexhaustible resources and treasures." (E. W. Grinfield)   The authors of this examination use the prophets and apostles own references and quotations of each others God given Scriptures as evidence.   And in regards to the Old and New Testaments they use Christ's quoting and referencing it as special proof.   They first emphasize belief in the God of the Bible and in Jesus' div...

One Perfect Life is a 'Harmony of the Gospels' type of compilation.   MacArthur notes in his introduction that, " The Holy Spirit gave us four Gospels and, specifically, three of them are synoptic …so that the truth concerning our Lord and Savior might be established on the basis of two or three witnesses." Using Matthew as a base text, MacArthur uses these four witnesses to piece together their complete picture of the life of Christ.   Instead of putting the Gospels in parallel columns, the accounts are morphed together forming one account.   For instance, sentences from Luke fill in spaces that are not recounted in the same account given by Matthew.   To keep a distinction between the accounts, listed beneath each 'chapter' heading are the chapter and verse numbers of each of the Gospel accounts blended in that particular chapter.   In the chapter itself, tiny superscript abbreviations of the names of the Gospels are used to mark the transition of one...