This month, we’re pleased to introduce a new author to Elisha’s Riddle – Richard K. Murray. Richard is a spectacular writer who vividly illustrates, defends, and celebrates the absolute goodness and light of God. His writings can be found at his website – www.thegoodnessofgod.com. The following is a very brief word taken from his Facebook page. It addresses biblical “inerrancy and infallibly.”
Only Jesus is INERRANT and INFALLIBLE.
So, if Jesus’ indwelling Spirit is NOT the one translating ALL the meanings of the Scriptures:
– their tones,
– their truths,
– their allegories,
– their symbols,
– their occasional misrepresentations about God’s nature,
– their beauties,
– their mysteries,
– their frustrations,
– their exceeding great and precious promises,
THEN your reading of them is not infallible and inerrant.
BUT, if as you sit and contemplate your Bible open on the table before you, and JESUS is the ONE spiritually leaning over your shoulder, vibrantly speaking into your thoughts, His right hand tenderly patting your back while His left hand points out certain passages He wants to explain and exhort you from, then you are truly blessed.
THAT is as infallible and inerrant as it gets – the Lord of Love and Light explaining the truth of Jesus in ALL Scripture. He did it for the Emmaus disciples and He will do it for us.
“And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself…. They said to each other, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?’….Then Jesus said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be realized.’” – Luke 24:27, 32, 44.
Jesus allegorized the Scriptures to these two highly blessed disciples. And their hearts burned within them as they finally understood the true import of the Old Testament. It takes God to explain God! It takes Spiritual Jesus to explain Scriptural Jesus. Only He is inerrant and infallible.
“Hear Him!” (Mark 9:7).