We must pay more
careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift
away. Hebrews 2:1
THERE ARE MEN IN OUR DAY who have studied the Bible and come to
the conclusion that since God is vocal in His universe, there is no such thing
as an inspired canon of Scripture containing a full body of revealed truth that
can serve as the one final source of doctrine and practice.
These teachers reason that if God is still speaking, then we
must keep our minds open to further revelation given, it may be, through poets,
philosophers, scientists and religionists of various kinds. They would insist
that wherever new truth is discovered or new and advanced ideas are brought
forth, there God is speaking again as He once spoke by the prophet and seer in
olden times.
While we grant such men the right to believe what they will,
this one thing is settled: whoever, for whatever reason, denies the finality of
the biblical revelation and insists upon a continuing revelation having the
same authority as the sacred Scriptures has shut himself out from the name of
Christian! He is simply not a Christian in the scriptural and historic meaning
of the word.
Between the ideas of a fixed biblical canon and a constantly
speaking God there is no contradiction! The point I make is that if the living
voice of God were not speaking in the world and in the hearts of men the
written Word could have no real meaning for us.
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