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 Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851 - 1921) or commonly known as B. B. Warfield was an amazing American Presbyterian minister and prolific writer that you need to get to know better. I found four volumes of B. B. Warfield's "works" at half price books for $3 each, which is amazing deal. (Half Price Books apparently doesn't account for inflation, because these books were printed in 1948 and sold new for only $7). B.B. Warfield is particularly known for his defense of the Inspiration of the Bible, and for the scholasticism of his books. D. A. Carson complemented Warfield by saying that Warfield never said anything wrong (my paraphrase). Unfortunately, most people today latch onto a few statements that Warfield said that seems to support Darwinian evolution, but are usually out of context or against other things Warfield has wrote. "Inspiration and Authority of Bible" by B.B. Warfield is a behemoth. I believe that a layperson could read the first half of the book but unless you have a basic understand of the Koine Greek language (biblical greek), Latin, some Hebrew, and a little background in Greek Philosophers, as well as Philo and some Judaisim, the second half of this book will be impossible to read. There are many untranslated paragraphs in Latin and Greek that I stared at for a long time just try to understand what Warfield was talking about. It was an amazing book overall, and by the last page, my respect for Warfield shot through the roof. "Inspiration and Authority of Bible" divides revelation into three categories: Theophanies, Dreams & Visions, and Conscription. Warfield says that all three times of revelation occur throughout the entirety of the bible, but the age of the patriarchs were dominated by Theophanies, or appearances of God to Man. During the age of the prophets, dreams and visions were the primary way that God provided revelation to man, and then conscription was during the apostolic age, which included typologies and the use of the Old Testament by the Apostles. Warfield notes that the holiness of the man has no influence on the importancy of the prophecy. Something is not more important because Moses said it rather than Zephaniah, because ultimately it is not the man but God who has spoken both things, so we should not error by favoring Moses because he provided more numerous prophecies. This is also extremely relevant to church creeds and councils, but their publications are the result of man's deductions and not from God's direct revelation according to the three ways I listed: Theophanies, Dreams & Visions or Conscriptions. In the second half of "Inspiration and Authority of Bible", Warfield goes to great lengths to demonstrate that Theopneustos in 2 Timothy 3:16 was correctly translated as of divine origin rather than spirit-filled, and the doctrine of biblical inspiration was held by all the apostles and Christ himself, and is not a new invention by fundamentalists. 2 Peter 1:20 is also discussed at great length. 2 Peter 1:20 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. The other three books that I purchased are "Calvin and Augustine," "Perfectionism," and "The Plan of Salvation." I will probably read "The Plan of Salvation" next, because it is a shorter book that critiques different views on how salvation is obtained in different Christian denominations, ie. Calvinism, Catholicism, Orthodox, etc. I'm looking forward to it.
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