Packer on Biblical Authority

                                                                                                                                                                  Vol. VI, No. 9, December 1993

      What Scripture says, God says; for, in a manner comparable only to the deeper mystery of the Incarnation, the Bible is both fully human and fully divine. So all its manifold contents – histories, prophecies, poems, songs, wisdom writings, sermons, statistics, letters, and whatever else – should be received as from God, and all that Bible writers teach should be revered as God's authoritative instruction. Christians should be grateful to God for the gift of His written Word, and conscientious in basing their faith and life entirely and exclusively upon it. Otherwise we cannot ever honor or please Him as He calls us to do.

[Theologian J. I. Packer in Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs]