Dr. Rainy speaks out.

Sir Leigh Teabing maintains that "The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven." In my days at New College the phrase used was "The Bible was not let down on a string from heaven." But who ever thought that it was? The Biblical text in question is that "holy men of God spoke, moved by the Holy Spirit" (II Peter 1.21). The technical name is concursus, God and man both working. That is why it is called 'Inspiration' in contrast to spiritistic 'automatic writing'.

There is an old error that says that the 'human element' in the Scriptures negates the possibility of inspiration. But now I must go and teach my class.