Quenstedt's great statement on Sacred Scripture

           In the January 1926 issue of Lehre und Wehre (Doctrine and Defense), Franz Pieper's “Foreword” quoted the orthodox Lutheran theologian Quenstedt on Holy Scripture.  It is certainly decisive in stating exactly the Lutheran, and Luther's, doctrine of Scripture. Quenstedt writes (page 8):

“The canonical Holy Scripture in the basic text is infallible truth and free from all error; or what is the same: in the canonical Holy Scripture there is no lie, no falsehood, no error, not even the slightest error, be it in matters, be it in words, but all and the individual things reported in it are absolutely true, whether they concern doctrine or morals, whether they concern history, chronology, place description or naming. No ignorance, no carelessness or forgetfulness, no error of memory can and must be attributed to the writers of the Holy Spirit in writing the Scriptures.”

Let every Christian of today cast off all teaching which begins to cause doubt about Holy Scripture – it is the devil's mask.