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$\"\"$ I think those who want to determine and define what the Bible is ought to spend more time looking at what these writings show themselves to be.<\/p>\n

One great example, which came up in my Sunday school class yesterday, is Hebrews 2:6<\/a>. There the author prefaces a quotation from Psalm 8 with the words, \u201cBut there is a place where someone has testified.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any view of the Bible and its inspiration which cannot allow its human authors to have occasionally forgotten where something was to be found is contrary to the evidence from the Bible itself, and no proof-texting should be accepted as justifying a doctrine that simply doesn\u2019t fit evidence such as this.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"