Is All Scripture Inspired? An Attempt to Answer the Question

RYLE, J C. (1816 -1900) Bishop of Liverpool. Is All Scripture Inspired? An Attempt to Answer the Question. London : William Hunt & Co. First edition, 1891. 16mo. 86 pp. Uncommon title. Original dark green cloth cover with gilt title on front cover. Clean and tight. Contents clean and unmarked apart from neat previous owner's signature on ffep. Strange tiny hole through back of cover into the back pages affecting just a publication list of William Hunt and Co. A very good copy of this uncommon early edition of Ryle. To J.C. Ryle, the inspiration of the Scriptures was 'the very keel and foundation of Christianity', the underpinning without which Christians had no warrant for doctrine or practice, 'no solid ground for present peace or hope, and no right to claim the attention of mankind' But is all Scripture inspired? Are the very words and expressions used by the writers from God, or does inspiration mean something less than this? Ryle was convinced that the very words are from God, and that only this view makes sense of what the Bible itself claims.…