The major
portion of Scripture, however, cannot he classified as dictation. It is evident
that the style and vocabulary differ from one writer to the next. Surely when
the Apostles wrote letters expressing their feelings in the first person singular,
this could not be classified as dictation from God. Hodge says:
The Church has never held what has been stigmatized
as the mechanical theory of inspiration. The sacred writers were not machines.
Their self consciousness was not suspended; nor were their intellectual powers superseded.
Holy men spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. It was men, not machines;
not unconscious instruments, but living, thinking, willing minds, whom the
Spirit used as His organs... The sacred writers impressed their peculiarities
on their several productions as plainly as though they were the subjects of no
extraordinary influence.2
2 Ibid.,
Vol. I, p. 157.
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