The Word of God

The Church Doctrine Of Inspiration, by B. B. Warfield

"The question is not, whether the doctrine of plenary inspiration has difficulties to face. The question is, whether these difficulties are greater than the difficulty of believing that the whole church of God from the beginning has been deceived in her estimate of the Scriptures committed to her charge--are greater than the difficulty of believing that the college of the apostles, yes and the Christ Himself at their head, were themselves deceived as to the nature of those Scriptures which they gave to the Church as its precious possession, and have deceived with them twenty Christian centuries, and are likely to deceive twenty more before our boasted advancing light has corrected their error--are greater than the difficulty of believing that we have no sure foundation for our faith and no certain warrant for our trust in Christ for salvation."

The Holy Scriptures - The Canon and Inspiration, by A. A. Hodge

"It is the most important of all books, because, as a matter of historical fact, this book, more than any other force, has molded the character of the great nations of the world and given birth to what we call the modern or Western civilization; because all historic Churches, with one accord, declare it to be the foundation of their creeds - declare that this book is the Word of God; because, in spite of all our divisions, the whole Church really accepts this book as the only infallible and divinely authoritative rule of our faith and practice; and because it is, between all Christians, the standard of appeal on all subjects of debate, the only common ground upon which we stand, the only court of last resort."