I don't know what exactly you mean by that question. Do you ask how one personally comes to know what is written in the bible or how it was revealed to the prophets and apostles?
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I don't know what exactly you mean by that question. Do you ask how one personally comes to know what is written in the bible or how it was revealed to the prophets and apostles?
Both, because there are human understanding's present in all of these interfaces with the word. As my own personal understanding matures the word takes on greater depth and meaning.
What I read and learned from it the first time is not what I learn from the same passage decades later
I see. Well, Gods Word was theopneustos, godbreathed, according to 2Tim 3,16. It is the inerrant Word of God, inspired through the Holy Spirit. The Bible is truth (Joh 17,17) because it reveals God's thoughts. It is the only infallible rule of life and source for doctrine.
In respect to the question how one can know what the Bible contains I hold to a kind of occasionalism. I regard it as impossible to come to any true proposition by the senses or scientific method, which is based on the formal fallacy of affirming the consequent. Self-refuting scepticism would be unavoidable.
There are necessary truths and matters of interpretation. I regard a non-evolutionary worldview as necessary true because it would, again, lead to self-refuting scepticism by making knowledge impossible.
Agreed, The scriptures are inspired by the Holy Spirit.
As a matter of interest, how in your opinion is that inspiration transcribed, recorded and transmitted across languages in its perfect infallible form?
In the current form, how are matters of differing interpretation then settled?
2Petr 1,21
As it stands, the Bible in it's entirety is God's Word, it is the Truth because it was written by men illuminated, led and controlled by the third person of the Trinity. That's THE first starting point or first principle of any christian worldview. God made man in his image. That means he reflects God's way of feeling, willing and thinking. According to the Bible man is able to think God's thoughts after him. This thoughts can be expressed by language.
There are only some necessary truths: inspiration of the Bible, God's existence, God being the way as revealed in the Bible not lying, unchanging, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, trinitarian and so on, further, creation (excluding evolution), man being made in the image of God besides some others.
Other things are matters of interpretation we are to be settled on the basis of a historic-grammatical, straight forward reading of the scripture.