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Book Review: Thy Word is Truth

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If you are looking for a non-technical book on the inspiration of Scripture, then I highly recommend to you Thy Word is Truth by E.J. Young.

This book is written as a popular book, so that any Christian may read it and understand this vital doctrine.

The book begins with Young describing the cross-roads the church faced in his day.

The real issue, as the present book will seek to make clear, is that modern man no longer is ready to listen to the voice of the one living and eternal God, but prefers rather the changing sands of human opinion for the foundation upon which to build his religious life. [1]

This book is intended to call God’s people back to His Word so that they may forsake the false religiousity of man and turn to the Living God. Young then turns to discussing the doctrine of inspiration and how the Lord gave His Word through human writers. God is sovereign and therefore it was not an issue for God to use the means He ordained.

In His good pleasure, which is a sovereign good pleasure, He may bear the human writers of the Bible, so controlling them, yet preserving intact their personalities, that they can write His revelation exactly as He wishes. [2]

Two chapters on inerrancy follow. Young deals with many misconceptions surrounding inerrancy and many specific passages of Scripture that are often put forth as “errors.”  His discussions of translations and how the writers of Scripture recorded events is very helpful. His summary of the doctrine of inerrancy is as follows.

All it postulates is that each writer who was borne of the Holy Spirit has recorded accurately that which the Spirit desired him to record. The Bible, in other words, is a true account of those things of which it speaks. This is the claim that Bible-believing Christians make for it, and this claim is taught by the Bible itself. [3]

He points out that the revelation of God must be without error, or the Christian faith itself remains in doubt.

After discussing the inspiration and inerrancy of Scripture, Young then turns to discussing how the Bible should be viewed. He says we should approach it with humility. It is the Word of God and it is to be received because it is the Word of God. The presuppositional understanding of the Bible is very clear in the book.

If, however, we are to know what the Bible really is, it is to the Bible itself that we must go and its teaching concerning itself we must heed. [4]

The last chapter, The Bible and Salvation returns to the crisis discussed in the first chapter of the book. As in Young’s time, Biblical truth is greatly needed in our day. The church needs to return to the authoritative Word. The book concludes with these words.

Thy God reigneth, and He has given to us good tidings! Such is the message which we have been seeking to present in this book. Thy God reigneth. He is upon the throne; and He alone is King. He has spoken, and His Word is truth. Behind lies the long night of our sin, the dark realm in which we created gods in our own image and constructed philosophies according to our likeness. Ahead is Emmanuel’s land. The way is straight and the day clear, for ‘the entrance of they words giveth light.’ [5]

I highly recommend this book. It is very readable and give a clear explanation of the doctrine of inspiration. I found the discussions of supposed Bible contradictions to be very helpful. It is my prayer that God would answer the prayer of E.J. Young in our time, and cause the church to humbly bow before her King and love His inerrant, inspired Word.

[1] Young, E.J. Thy Word is Truth. Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1957, pg. 15.

[2] Ibid. pg. 78.

[3] Ibid. pg. 138.

[4] Ibid. pg. 18.

[5] Ibid. pg. 267.



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