Welcome to Stan Ter Reason's hashtag STRASK podcast with Greg Kogel and Amy Hall.

And Amy Hall, the great Amy Hall.

Oh, come on. just out of town hearing people

sing your praises, so I'm glad we're working on this together, Amy. All right. Well, moving on from

that. Here's a question from James. When reading the New Testament, I wonder how much of the

Apostles' fallen nature influenced their

choice of words and how they communicated.

Is it reasonable to worry that some of our current doctrines came from them just getting annoyed

or impatient with someone and wording something too harshly?

Well, I think the simple answer to that is no.

If we – I'm trying to figure out the best way to answer this.

Certainly – I've got to back up even further.

The doctrine of inspiration holds that two people, two individuals, are working concursively together to accomplish an end.

And that would be the writer whose temperament and personality and word choice are reflected in

the writing and the Holy Spirit who is carrying that writer along, so to speak. The picture we have in 2nd Peter

Chapter 1 is where it said Medmood by the Holy Spirit spoke from God is like the wind blowing

through the sails of a ship, just a word picture to give us some sense of what's going on,

concursive operation. There's two's going on. Con cursive operation.

There's two things going on.

Now, you can also think, and people have used this as an illustration, of the two natures

of Christ, you have the divine nature and the human nature that are fully each, fully divine

and fully human, working concursively and intimately together in a non-conflicting way.

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