Our Bible Heritage

                                                                                                                             Vol. VII, No. 3, April 1994

Today's quotation is by J. B. Tidwell who served as Chairman, Bible Department, Baylor University from 1910 to 1946. It comes from his Thinking Straight about the Bible, or Is the Bible the Word of God? published by the Sunday School Board in 1935.

"These [the biblical authors] certainly claim that what they say is of God. To them the inspiration is not just plenary but [also] verbal. They were not left to choose their words promiscuously. Their individuality was preserved, but the words used were given them of God. Not just the thought came from God, but every word with every inflection. Every verse and line and even every tense of the verb, every number of the noun, and every little particle they regarded as coming from God and demanded in the pain of grave disaster that we should preserve it in its entirety."