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

Today, the Doctrine of Revelation Part 8.

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The last time we met, we talked about a theory of biblical inspiration that would give us a verbal, plenary, and truly

confluent Word of God that would make sense of the doctrine of inspiration found in the Bible.

Now this raises then the question of biblical authority and inerrancy.

And we saw that inerrancy is properly defined in terms not simply of what the Bible says, but in terms of what the Bible teaches,

and that the Bible therefore in virtue of being God's word ought to be thought to be

inerrant and all that it teaches. Now, this doctrine confronts difficulties of various sorts.

These are principally three.

There are two listed in your outline, but I'm going to add a third category that has recently

come to more significance in my mind.

First would be simple inconsistencies within Scripture,

where the Scriptures seem to contradict themselves. A good example of this in the New

Testament would be with respect to the accounts of the death of Judas Ascariot. In Matthew 7, 27 rather, and verse 5,

we read what happens to Judas after he had betrayed Jesus. 275 says, throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and he went out

and hanged himself.

So Judas committed suicide by hanging, according to Matthew.

But now when you turn over to the account that Luke gives in Acts chapter 1, you find

a different story.

In Acts chapter 1, verses 18 and 19, Luke adds this parenthetical comment.

Now this man bought a field with a reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst

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