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Thy Word is Truth Book Summary

REFORMATION INTERNATIONAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BOOK SUMMARY: THY WORD IS TRUTH Thomas Booher SYS 501 Systematic Theology January 5, 2017 Professor Edward J. Young’s Thy Word is Truth is a helpful book that defines and defends the doctrine of the inspiration of Scripture. He demonstrates that this doctrine is indispensable; without it one cannot rely upon the Bible as the inerrant word of God, and thus man must become the ultimate arbiter concerning which parts of the Bible are truly God’s word and which are not. In contrast, to establish the doctrine of inspiration grants complete confidence in the whole Bible as God’s word, solidifying the statements about man, sin, Christ, and salvation by evoking the eternal truth of God Himself as man’s guide for all of life. The whole of the Christian faith stands or falls on the doctrine of inspiration, and it is for this reason that a careful summary of each chapter of Young’s book on inspi