Scriptures selfattesting authority question doctrine truthfulness Scriptures

16
In the People the Word Creates
When we consider that the Scriptures manifest themselves to be the
word of God by the way they give all glory to God, we are drawn into
a dazzling display of light shining from the innumerable facets of the
diamond we call Scripture. New cultures and new generations and new
individuals see an ever-expanding vista of the glory of God that is really
there in the biblical revelation of God and his ways. Our exploration is
not exhaustive, therefore, but illustrative.
God’s Peculiar Glory
In this book, I am trying to draw out of Scripture some of the connections
between the particularities of God’s self-glorification and the ways these
confirm the Scriptures as the word of God. I have argued that the Scriptures
not only show that their pervasive aim is to give all glory to God (as
the catechism says 1 ), but also to show the astonishing ways they do so.
What has emerged is an essence or a center or a dominant peculiarity
in the way God glorifies himself in Scripture. We have seen this in
the way he glorifies himself in working for those who wait for him
(chapter 13), through fulfilled prophecy (chapter 14), and through
the miracles of Jesus (chapter 15). That dominant particularity is the
1
Westminster Larger Catechism, Question #4: “How doth it appear that the Scriptures are the word of
God?” Answer [in part]: “The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the word of God, by . . . the scope of
the whole, which is to give all glory to God.”