If the heavens declare the glory of God and therefore bear witness to their divine Creator, the Scripture as God's handiwork must also bear the imprints of his authorship. This is just saying that Scripture evidences itself to be the Word of God; its divinity is self-evidencing and self-authenticating. The ground of faith in Scripture as the Word of God is therefore the evidence it inherently contains of its divine authorship and quality….

If the faith is faith in the Bible as God's Word, obviously the evidence upon which such faith rest must itself have the quality of divinity. For only evidence with the quality of divinity would be sufficient to ground a faith in divinity. Faith in Scripture as God's Word, then, rests upon the perfections inherent in Scripture and is elicited by the perception of these perfections.

John Murray, "The Attestation of Scripture,"
in The Infallible Word,
edited by N. B. Stonehouse and Paul Woolley,
(P & R Publishing Company, 2002 edition), p. 46-47.

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