Carl F. H. Henry on Doctrine

                                                                                                                                                                       Vol. VI, No. 1, January 1993

Carl F. H. Henry writes, "Doctrinal precision is a religious asset that seminaries owe to our future pastors, that college faculties owe to their students, and that the churches owe to the world. What has been centrally at stake in this conflict is the authority of the Bible. In an earlier century the questions 'what are the basic Christian beliefs and what is the truth content of Christianity' would have been answered unhesitatingly: what the supernaturally inspired prophets and apostles taught as doctrine and what the Bible inerrantly affirms. Assertion of the errancy of Scripture would have been recognized at once as a repudiation of biblical authority. When earlier generations spoke of the infallibility of Scripture, they meant its inerrancy, not something that accommodated its errancy. Jesus said to His contemporaries: 'Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures' (Matthew 22:29).” [Southern Baptist Watchman, June 1992]