This excerpt is Gaussen’s personal testimony describing the change that took place in his life and the life of the Apostle Paul when “Divine grace revealed to us that doctrine of the righteousness of faith.” It was then that “every word became light, harmony, and life.” The uniting of Spirit, Word, and believer is not only exegetically grounded, and theologically sound, but is the experience of every born again saint. Christians must be taught to doubt the words of Scripture. The new birth allows the believer to see the light of the Bible’s self-attestation and self-authentication as Gaussen so sweetly puts it, “chords vibrate within us, in unison with the Word of God, “Yes, my God, all the Scriptures are divinely inspired!”
The self-authentication of Scripture is not at the purview of the Academy or some Ecclesiastical governing body — it is the gracious possession of every believer — inimitable, so wonderful an epistemological experience there is nothing with which it can be compared.
This simple yet profound union of the Word and saint is that which the critic disdains but that which drives redemptive history to eschatological fulfillment.
May bad teaching from misguided teachers never be allowed to rob the saint of the “the joy of one who has made a discovery” that the Bible is indeed the Word of God.
Blessings!
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