Another from Lenski:
"The Great Confessional Mark: "What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?" The true answer should rest on the objective fact that Christ is the Son of God. Our confession does no more than to voice this fact as our personal conviction. The utterance of the confession is, of course, subjective, and yet it is not the same as the contrary subjective confession of unbelief, as the latter loves to assume. It is no mere matter of personal opinion or preference whether I confess: "And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord," etc., or deny: "I believe that Jesus Christ was a mere man, most likely the son of Joseph." For as Jesus himself indicates in our text: there is the invincible evidence of Scripture.
One of the real reasons why the Verbal Inspiration of the Scriptures is being attacked with renewed vigor at the present time is the necessity for getting rid of the binding force of the evidence of Scripture on this as well as on other subjects. If the wall of Scripture stands without breach, all who refuse to confess as the Scriptures place the confessional words into our mouth, stand utterly condemned. We need not say even a word; the facts themselves speak in thunderous tones. For ever it remains true that the confessors of the Lord's deity and of all that his deity involves, have the sacred voices of the entire Holy Writ assenting to their confession in grand, unanimous chorus, before the very face of God; while all who make bold to deny have all of these voices of Holy Writ denying their denial with the same overwhelming unanimity, before the face of God. How can this chorus with its testimony for and against be hushed? Many are sure that it can be done when once Verbal Inspiration has been sufficiently invalidated and has been wholly discredited.
"The Great Confessional Mark: "What think ye of Christ? whose son is he?" The true answer should rest on the objective fact that Christ is the Son of God. Our confession does no more than to voice this fact as our personal conviction. The utterance of the confession is, of course, subjective, and yet it is not the same as the contrary subjective confession of unbelief, as the latter loves to assume. It is no mere matter of personal opinion or preference whether I confess: "And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord," etc., or deny: "I believe that Jesus Christ was a mere man, most likely the son of Joseph." For as Jesus himself indicates in our text: there is the invincible evidence of Scripture.
One of the real reasons why the Verbal Inspiration of the Scriptures is being attacked with renewed vigor at the present time is the necessity for getting rid of the binding force of the evidence of Scripture on this as well as on other subjects. If the wall of Scripture stands without breach, all who refuse to confess as the Scriptures place the confessional words into our mouth, stand utterly condemned. We need not say even a word; the facts themselves speak in thunderous tones. For ever it remains true that the confessors of the Lord's deity and of all that his deity involves, have the sacred voices of the entire Holy Writ assenting to their confession in grand, unanimous chorus, before the very face of God; while all who make bold to deny have all of these voices of Holy Writ denying their denial with the same overwhelming unanimity, before the face of God. How can this chorus with its testimony for and against be hushed? Many are sure that it can be done when once Verbal Inspiration has been sufficiently invalidated and has been wholly discredited.
