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An Objection To My Argument For 'The Fact' Of Inspiration by Thomas Crisp & A 'Response' By Lydia McGrew

10/22/2012

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Truth Seeker said... Hello,

I was recently reading, but not fully understanding Thomas Crisp's article in the book Analytic Theology: new essays in the philosophy of theology (http://www.apologeticsinthechurch.com/uploads/7/4/5/6/7456646/oxford_analytic_theology_-new_essays_in_philosophy_of_theology1.pdf).

In that chapter he considers the following set of premises to argue that the Bible is divinely inspired:

T: God exists.
A: God intervenes in history to provide a propositional revelation about
himself.
B: Jesus’s teachings were such that they could be plausibly interpreted as
implying that he intended to found a church that would function for a
long period time as an authoritative source of information about him.
C: Jesus rose from the dead.
D: In raising Jesus from the dead, God declared his approval of Jesus’s
teachings.
E: The Church that, by the start of the Wfth century, had pronounced on which books were divinely inspired, is a legitimate successor—the ‘closest
continuer’—of the church founded by Jesus.
If so, then the strongest case for IB will be compromised by an undermining objection.

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