Bauder on "Theories of Inspiration"

Theories of Inspiration:

Excerpt:

Scripture itself, however, never hints that inspiration has any degrees, grades, or variations. Either a text is inspired or it is not: no intermediate category exists. Furthermore, the apostles regularly placed their own words directly alongside the words of Christ, insisting that their teachings were as authoritative as His. To cite one example, Paul did just that in 1 Cor. 7:10-12. Dealing with issues related to marriage, he pointed to the teachings of the Lord Jesus as authoritative. Then, dealing with a related issue that Jesus had not addressed, he asserted his own teaching as equally authoritative (vv.11-12). Scripture is either inspired or not. There are no degrees of inspiration.