Inspiration, Not Guidance, Nor Intuition

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Excerpt from Inspiration, Not Guidance, Nor Intuition: Or the Plenary Inspiration of the Holy ScripturesThe present fulfills an intimation expressed at the close of the former Volume under the same title.The most striking feature of the very numerous, learned, philosophical, and theological treatises of modern times, on the subject of Inspiration, is that of their various and inconsistent definitions, theories, and speculations. It is remarkable that, at a period characterized as preeminently the age of Bibles, when the Protestant world, aware of the Divine purposes to be fulfilled by the universal diffusion of the Sacred Oracles, is engaged in the publication of them in the languages of all the nations of the earth, their inspiration, the basis of their claim to infallibility and Divine authority, should, by one class of writers, be asserted on erroneous and fallacious principles, and by other classes, be openly assailed, impugned, or denied, upon various contradictory and hostile theories and assumptions, that learned and orthodox men of the one class, who hold the Scriptures to be the infallible word of God, should assume that infallible guidance of the sacred writers, instead of a conveyance to their minds of the infallible thoughts and words which they were to record, was the object and end of Inspiration, and that men of the other class should treat the subject as involving no specific element of infallibility whatever. On the one hand, a state of things, in all respects unprecedented, exists in regard to the means and facilities of diffusing the Oracles of God among all nations, on the other, the plenary inspiration and Divine authority of those Oracles is called in question in new and imposing forms of theory and speculation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.