Paper: Perspective On Christian Scripture

In my paper “Perspective on Christian Scripture,” I stated that I believed that the Protestant Canon was indeed the word of God and that it was inerrant (Ferries 2). Two months later, my conviction has remained the same, for the internal testimony of scripture is of grave importance when we’re dealing and discussing the doctrines, beliefs, and practices of Christianity. Though the principal of my view hasn’t changed, my conviction for its necessity has progressed over the last two months. Is the Bible the Word of God? Or Does the Bible contain the Word of God? The subtle use of semantics is deceiving; for the former says, that the Bible is intrinsically true and inerrant, and thus would have the Word of God in it. The latter, however, only contains the Word of God, and is subject to flaws, for it only contains and is not intrinsically the word of God, nor is it inerrant. In the former, we

The prophecies that have been fulfilled have taught me to take the text literally, for they have been fulfilled literally, and they also let me know that the stuff that is to come will happen in like manner. One such prophecy is the first sixty-nine weeks of Daniel’s seventy week prophecy in Daniel Chapter nine. The angel tells Daniel that 69 weeks will take place between the decree rebuild Jerusalem and when the Messiah will be cut off (Daniel 9: 24-27). Since the sixtynine weeks contain seven years instead of seven days, and are comprised of prophetic days containing 360 days in a year; and if you do the math it equals out to 173,880 days between the decree to rebuild Jerusalem and when the Messiah was to be cut off. This was fulfilled literally for 173,880 days passed between Artaxerxes Longimanus (March 14th 445 BC) and when the Messiah presented himself to be cut off (April 6th 32 AD) (Anderson