Lewis Varley addresses a matter commonly raised by both Muslims and secularists against the Christian doctrine of special revelation: How can a book produced by humans be inspired by God or accurately communicate divine speech and intentions? Isn’t God—according to the Christian conception—so far above us that human speech and human writing is utterly unable to adequately communicate his will?
Varley offers a number of helpful responses:
- The Divine-Human Scriptures Point to God’s Power
- What Form Should a Book of Direct Revelations Take?
- God Has Shown His Kindness to Us in the Accommodation of Scripture
- The Divine-Human Scriptures Are Made Possible Because of Our Identity as God’s Image Bearers
- The Literary Forms of Scripture Resonate with Our Lives
Here is a taste:
It comes as no surprise that our friends who deny that God could inhabit a human body would also deny that God’s words could also be human words. To deny the character of Scripture as a divine-human book is, by extension, to deny that God could ever come into our world, our times, our lives, but must inevitably be detached from us. To affirm the divine-human word is to affirm God’s immanent involvement in our everyday, often ordinary, lives.
