[Glossary] J. Gresham Machen
1. (Clark 1965, 15): "In the early thirties, J. Gresham Machen, a scholar of world renown, tried to halt unbelief in the Presbyterian Church; but he was excommunicated for his loyalty to the Word of...
View Article[Glossary] Reason for Believing the Bible
1. (Clark 1965, 14): "Some sections of the Confession may be hard to understand. But there is no difficulty at all about the meaning of [Chapter I] section iv. The Bible, the Holy Scripture, is to be...
View Article[Glossary] The Neo-orthodox's Containment Theory of the Word of God
1. (Clark 1965, 15-16): "And today neo-orthodoxy loudly insists that the word of God is found in the Bible, perhaps only in the Bible, but that not everything in the Bible is true. These modernists...
View Article[Glossary] Criticism of Neo-orthodox's Containment Theory of the Bible
1. (Clark 1965, 16): "[Chapter I] Section iv says that the authority for which the Scriptures should be believed depends wholly on God, who is truth itself and the author of the books; therefore the...
View Article[Glossary] Assurance of the Infallible Truth of the Bible
1. (Clark 1965, 16): "[Chapter I] Section v even uses the word infallible. It says that our full assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority of these books is the work of the Holy Spirit....
View Article[Glossary] Assurance of the Divine Authority of the Bible
1. (Clark 1965, 16): "[Chapter I] Section v even uses the word infallible. It says that our full assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority of these books is the work of the Holy Spirit....
View Article[Glossary] Interpreting the Bible
1. (Clark 1965, 16): "[Chapter 1] Section v even uses the word infallible. It says that our full assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority of these books is the work of the Holy Spirit....
View Article[Glossary] The Bible and Historical Proof
1. (Clark 1965, 17): "It also returns us to the notion of proof or demonstration. If, while we are trying to win a man to Christ, he asks us to prove that the Bible is true, what sort of 'proof' does...
View Article[Glossary] Doctrine and Archaeology
1. (Clark 1965, 17): "Archaeology, of course, can contribute little or nothing toward proving that the doctrines, as distinct from the historical events, of the Bible are true." Reference:Clark, Gordon...
View Article[Glossary] The Bible and Logical Consistency
1. (Clark 1965, 18): "The consent or logical consistency of the whole is important; for if the Bible contradicted itself, we would know that some of it would be false."Reference:Clark, Gordon H. 1965....
View Article[Glossary] How May We Know the Bible is True?
1. (Clark 1965, 18): "How then may we know that the Bible is true? The Confession answers, 'Our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth and divine authority [of the Scripture] is from the...
View Article[Glossary] The Bible as Axiom
1. (Clark 1965, 18): "Logically the infallibility of the Bible is not a theorem to be deduced from some prior axiom. The infallibility of the Bible is the axiom from which the several doctrines are...
View Article[Glossary] The Bible is God's Complete Revelation
1. (Clark 1965, 19): "[Chapter I] Section vi and the second catechism question assert that the whole counsel of God, so far as the spiritual needs of man are concerned, is contained in the Bible. In...
View Article[Glossary] The Bible, Logic and Good and Necessary Consequence
1. (Clark 1965, 19-20): "Though we are not to add to the Scripture -- no sign of the cross, no bowing at the second phrase of the Apostles' Creed, no holy days or saint's days, no kneeling at the...
View Article[Glossary] The Bible and Mistaken Inferences
1. (Clark 1965, 21): "Of course, the validity of logic does not guarantee our infallibility. We may make mistakes in inference, and, what is more frequent, we may misunderstand some portions of...
View Article[Glossary] Saving Understanding versus Ordinary Understanding of the Bible
1. (Clark 1965, 21): "Especially with regard to a saving understanding of Scripture, we need the illumination of the Spirit of God. One of the reasons is that a saving understanding goes beyond an...
View Article[Glossary] Doctrines and the Bible
1. (Clark 1965, 24): "The Reformers made it a principle never to establish a doctrine on the basis of a single verse. On one occasion a Bible School teacher tried to convince me of something by quoting...
View Article[Glossary] How Can We Obtain a Knowledge of God?
1. (Clark 1965, 24-25): "Section x is the culmination of Chapter I. At the beginning of this chapter the question was asked, How can we obtain a knowledge of God? In the history of theology three main...
View Article[Glossary] The Bible, Modernism and Religious Experience
1. (Clark 1965, 25): "Unfortunately the visible churches that have descended from the Protestant Reformation, especially the larger and wealthier denominations, have to a considerable degree repudiated...
View Article[Glossary] The Bible, Neo-orthodoxy and Existential Encounter
1. (Clark 1965, 25): "Unfortunately the visible churches that have descended from the Protestant Reformation, especially the larger and wealthier denominations, have to a considerable degree repudiated...
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