Your Word is Truth

"It is my firm conviction that only trust in the inspired, infallible, inerrant, authoritative, and sufficient Bible can restore the glory of God to the Church of Christ" (R.J. Sheehan)

Imagination, which is perhaps the only thing in man that has no limits, has conceived, from its most obscurantist side, the possibility of a religion without God, and even—and here lies the absurdity of absurdities—a Christianity without the Bible, or a minimized Bible.

Robert J. Sheehan was in total disagreement with this, and with a background of deep faith and a clear mind—a renowned British theological journal considered him "the leading Reformed Baptist theologian of his generation"—and from long pastoral and educational experience, he wrote a series of articles on this crucial topic in Christian theology. These articles make up this book in its eight chapters and an appendix; therefore, they could not be more current and practical; and, due to their overwhelming logic, their publication by Peregrino has been deemed necessary, and for you, reader, it is necessary to read it.

Step by step, almost without realizing it, the book leads us to take firm positions. "Any attitude toward the Scriptures that disagrees with that of Christ and his apostles cannot be right in calling itself Christian" (p. 63); it warns us of the danger of traditions or the disdain for the interpretations of others (p. 11), that revelation must be studied exegetically, chronologically, thematically, and practically (pp. 13 et seq.); but this knowledge about God must bring us closer to God (p. 12). There is a clear warning to those who use God's revelation as a springboard for their own conjectures. God, it seems, has not revealed enough for them (p. 12), and so in his clear analysis of 2 Timothy 3:14-17 (chapter 8), he tells them—and us—that the Scriptures teach man what God requires of him. "There is no doctrine that it is necessary to believe, nor duty that it is necessary to fulfill, for which Scripture does not give us sufficient information to enable us to believe and obey God" (p. 84).

The chapter on the original text of Scripture is masterful in its clarity; what others have needed entire books for, the author explains, and without a doubt, in just eight pages.

The appendix is a definitive answer to Wayne Grudem, the theologian who first argued that there were two kinds of prophecies: one infallible and the other fallible; an example of how to put into practice what he previously taught and what we learned.

It is true that there are still problems, but an unresolved problem is not the same as an error (p. 60); but what I am sure of is that everyone who reads this book will have solved some problems and will make fewer mistakes.

Luis Cano