According to Protestant New Testament Scholars, can one argue for the inspiration & unity of scripture without using a “theological” claim or method?

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One way is to find out how an academic non-believer in the Bible came to conclude that it really was the inspired word of God. And if that academic became a Protestant who was not reduced to basing every claim on 2 Timothy 3:16, your criteria would be met.

Pick up the book, "Evidence That Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell (revised edition). It does not read like a book because it is a compilation of the author's notes prepared for his lecture series on "Christianity: Hoax or History?" He has laid the material out in note form, so that teachers can write their own term papers, give speeches and inject it into classrooms as material to encourage dialogue and debate.

One student wrote to McDowell, "I used the notes in preparing a speech for an oratory contest. I won, and will be giving the same speech at graduation."

However, McDowell then added, "The proper motivation behind the use of these lecture notes is to glorify and magnify Jesus Christ - not to win an argument." (Preface, page v)

But he does, indeed, deal with the inspiration and unity of scripture in an academic way. He has also written, More Evidence that Demands a Verdict, More Than a Carpenter, and Daniel in the Critics' Den. He has spoken to millions of students and faculty at over 550 universities in 53 countries.

Sources: Revised Edition, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1979.

More Evidence That Demands A Verdict, Revised edition, Here's Life Publishers, San Bernardino, California, 1981.

New Evidence That Demands A Verdict, Word, Nashville, 1999.

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