Inerrancy and the Gospels: A God-Centered Approach to the Challenges of Harmonization by Vern S. Poythress
Author:Vern S. Poythress
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Criticism & Interpretation, Bible Study & Reference, New Testament, Theology, Apologetics, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles
Publisher: Crossway Books
Published: 2012-10-29T22:00:00+00:00
Let us begin by concentrating on two pieces of this puzzle. Did Luke use Mark? And if he did, what difference does it make in how we read Luke?
First, did Luke use Mark? Would such use be consistent with God’s inspiring Luke and making the Gospel of Luke God’s writing as well as Luke’s? Inspiration affirms the divine authority of the product, the text of Luke. By itself, it does not specify the means that God may have used in the processes leading up to the product. Some books, like the book of Revelation, came about as a product of special visions that God gave to the human author. Luke 1:3 indicates that Luke engaged in historical research: “It seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you.” God superintended this research. At the end of this period of research, God through his Holy Spirit empowered Luke in his writing in such a way that the Gospel of Luke, the product, was God’s speech in written form: “For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit” (2 Pet. 1:21). We can have confidence in the product without knowing all the means that God used in Luke and in his research to bring about the product.
Luke 1:2 mentions “eyewitnesses and ministers of the word.” It is likely that Luke interviewed some of them. He also mentions written sources: “many have undertaken to compile a narrative” (1:1). Nothing forbade Luke from using Mark if Mark was one of these written sources available to him. In addition, nothing forbade him from using ordinary, noninspired sources as well, as long as we understand that the Holy Spirit supervised his use of all his sources and that the resulting product really is God’s writing through Luke.
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