The evidence is strong that Paul is speaking as a reasonable, honest man who knows what he is saying and why.

His explanation is that Christ appeared to him and that he receives revelation.

With such revelation, he credits the Old Testament and speaks a full message about the person and work of Jesus Christ as God's truth.

We must decide if we believe he is credible witness.

There is good reason to believe that he is.

How can we trust that Paul's writings are true and authoritative?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper explores Paul's transformation and claims

of receiving revelation from Jesus himself, demonstrating why his testimony

is trustworthy and divinely inspired.

This seminar was originally delivered

at Bethlehem Baptist Church in September 2001.

How can we justify the claim that the Bible makes for itself and credit the inspiration,

inerrancy, and authority of all the books of the Bible?

I'm going to talk first about Paul's testimony and how we credit Paul.

So this is kind of a historical argument,

and the other one will be a more theological,

spiritual kind of approach.

Why do we want to credit Paul's testimony?

So here we are trying to find historical warrant

for crediting Paul's testimony. Why? Why should we care? Well, he claimed to write with words taught by the Spirit. We saw this last night, 1 Corinthians 212. We've received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God that we might know the things freely given to us by God,

which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the

spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words, or interpreting spiritual things to spiritual

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