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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1888 Original Publisher: A. C. Armstrong and Son Description: Includes indexes on subjects, persons, and biblical passages discussed. Subjects: Bible Inspiration Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. PRINCIPAL VIEWS OF INSPIRATION NOW HELD. WE pass over for the present any minute review of the history and progress of opinion in the past, as to Inspiration. It could readily be shown how present controversies are but reproductions of the old; and also that the views which have been fairly tried and found wanting might justly be now set aside. It must suffice to state in a summary way the principal views of Inspiration prevalent in the present day. I. The first is the theory of Mechanical InspiRation, or, as it has been termed, the Dictation Theory. This ignores any real human authorship whatever in the Scriptures. Each of the various books, and every part of them, is ascribed to God, in such a sense as to leave no room for human intelligence or activity. The inspired man was as truly and merely a mechanical instrument as the pen with which the writing was done. This view was vigorously and unmistakably expressed by J. A. Qucnstedt: -- All and each of the things which are contained in the Sacred Scriptures, whether they were naturallyentirely unknown to the sacred writers, or indeed naturally knowable yet actually unknown, or finally not only naturally knowable but even actually known, whether from some other source or by experience and the ministry of the senses, were not only committed to letters by divine, infallible assistance and direction, but are to be regarded as received by the special suggestion, inspiration, and dicta...
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