Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of Revelation Part 6.

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We've been talking about the doctrine of inspiration and the question that we closed with

last time was how inspiration can be plenary, verbal and yet confluent.

And we saw that no one wants to defend a dictation theory of biblical inspiration.

Muslims hold to something like that for the Quran,

but Christian theologians recognize that the scriptures are the products of their human authors,

as well as the divine author.

And so some sort of supervision theory of inspiration seems best.

But the problem is enunciating such a theory, showing how we can make sense of God's

superintending work so that the final product will be verbal, plenary, and confluent

in its inspiration.

Now for the lesson today, it will be helpful if you have the outline with the quotations

and the premises of the arguments on it.

So if you don't have an outline, raise your hands and Marian

will get one to you right away. So how can inspiration be verbal, plenary, and yet confluent?

Here contemporary theologians have not had a whole lot to say.

Let's look at the bewilderment that is expressed by some representative Catholic, Lutheran,

and Reformed theologians.

Now these are not contemporaries.

These are classical thinkers that represent these traditions.

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