Faithful creeds, confessions, and quotes are doing the same work a preacher does; they are explaining, illustrating, and applying the authoritative Word of God. The difference in Scripture and the preacher, the creed, the confession, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, John MacArthur, Steven Stanley, and John Fry is that we can err, and the Scripture does not.

The Christian heritage is rich and deep, vast and wide. We should be proud of it, and exult in the work the Lord has done in times past, even up to our day, and pray that he would continue to grow his church in faith and gratitude. But the church, in every age, must not sit on its laurels, so to speak, and be content with past achievements. This is not the way new generations are grown, or wars won, or faithfulness endures.

Those who advocate for continued revelation either do not see how their misled desire for God to continue speaking destroys the canon of scripture, or there is a lack of care in regards to the use and misuse of God’s word.

The inspiration, inerrancy, and authority of the bible all relate to one another because they are all necessarily required and they all flow into one another.