A brief digression for more “Pearls of Logic” from C. C. Ryrie.
From the Introduction to the First Letter of Paul to Timothy:
Some have questioned whether Paul himself wrote these letters … There is no argument against Pauline authorship that does not have a reasonable answer. And, of course, the letters themselves claim to have been written by Paul. (Emphasis mine)
From A Synopsis of Bible Doctrine:
The Bible is self-authenticating and church councils have only recognized the authority inherent in the books themselves. (Emphasis mine)
Need I say more????
The program did what? Oh, that! That’s not a bug. I meant for your hard drive to be erased when you typed the sequence ctl-alt-cmd-tab-G-7. That’s a feature of the program.
For Christmas in 1981, my parents gave me The Ryrie Study Bible (which I still have). There is a Synopsis of Bible Doctrine written by C. C. Ryrie, himself. Under the section titled The Inspiration of the Bible is the following item:
Neither do we deny that there are problems in the text that we presently have. But problems are quite different from errors. Indeed, in the face of the claims that the Bible apparently makes for itself about inspiration and inerrancy, it would seem more reasonable when confronted with problems to place one’s faith in the Scriptures which have been proved to be true again and again than in any fallible human opinion. Man’s knowledge of these problems is limited and has in some instances been proved to be wrong. Time will undoubtedly continue to bring to light facts which will help solve the yet unsolved problems in the Bible. (Emphasis mine.)
So, the claim as follows:
- This apparent error is not really an error but just a problem we can’t figure out because
- the Bible doesn’t contain any errors because
- the Bible is 100% true because
- the Bible, itself, claims to be 100% true and because
- the Bible doesn’t contain any errors
Or the condensed version: The Bible doesn’t contain any errors because the Bible doesn’t contain any errors.
Got that?
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