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Roger Nicole's 'A Biblical Concept Of Truth'

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A Biblical Concept of Truth, as written by Roger Nicole, discusses his viewpoint regarding the ideals of faithfulness, truth, and grace. I believe Nicole’s purpose for writing is to emphasize the concept of how he believes truth and being faithful is explained, create a depiction of how Jesus Christ spoke about the age-long underlying question “What is truth?”, and compare as well as contrast how the truth is defined in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Roger Nicole’s approach to how humanity defines what truth and faithfulness truly are further explained in this chapter. He specifically states that his purpose in “Scripture and Truth” is to analyze how the word “truth” is used and what the range and substance of meaning is that …show more content…

Such scriptures regarding trust include Exodus 18:21 which says, “But select capable men from all the people-men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain-…” and Nehemiah 7:2. The author also utilizes the presence of faith in several scriptures in order to discuss his opinion about God’s attribute as ‘emet. Nicole provides numerous scriptural examples to argue his point such as Psalm 117:8 which says, “The works of his hand are faithful and just’ all his precepts are trustworthy. They are steadfast forever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness.” (289) and Psalm 85:11 that says, “Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks own from heaven.” Roger Nicole expresses his opinion pertaining to the question of what truth really is as if Pilate asked Christ Himself. In John 18:38 which writes, “What is truth?... With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, I find no basis for a charge against him.”, the author goes on to discuss what Pilate’s

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