*Alward: Till's Argument on Verbal Inspiration

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Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:15:56 EST (00910869356, 62f88556.364a6f0c@aol.com) 

Farrell Till:
 None of this, however, negates the fact that the Bible teaches that when God
inspired
 individuals, he put his words in their mouths, 
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Charlie
I had thought that the best that the inerrantists could come up with even in
the bible to support inerrancy was

2 Tim 3:16   All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Where in the Bible does it teach "that when God inspired individuals, he put
his words in their mouth?"
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Farrell Till:

Didn't you read my four postings entitled "Understanding Biblical Inerrancy"?
Your question is answered in them.
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Joe Alward:

As far as I can see, Till, shows conclusively that some writers on some
occasions did have God's words put in their mouths.

Till presents ample evidence that Yahweh literally put words in the mouth of
Isaiah and Jeremiah, and other evidence that they, along with Ezekiel, Jonah,
Hosea, Micah, and Joel,  said that the word of God "came to them". He further
shows that there are hundreds of OT references to "the word of Yahweh" coming
to the writer. Moses, too,  said he wrote down the words of Yahweh.  Thus,
Till makes a convincing case that ". . . the OT writers thought that they were
speaking and writing the very words of Yahweh."  It is clear, then, that some
passages in the OT were dictated by Yahweh.

But, what about the other passages? If Till's analysis is as thorough as we've
all come to expect (I'll assume that it is), then there does not seem to exist
any evidence that these writers did not also write other things which which
were not God's very words.  If this evidence does not exist, it would seem
that errantists cannot make a strong case that inerrantists are compelled to
believe every word in the bible came straight from the lips of god.  If
inerrantists don't HAVE to believe that every word came straight from god,
then they have to right to suppose that certain verses might not have been
perfectly communications from god.