The Bible is thought
of as
authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it
speaks of everything. We do not mean that it speaks of football
games, of atoms, etc., directly, but we do mean that it speaks of
everything either directly or by implication. It tells us not
only of the Christ and his work, but it also tells us who God is and
where the universe about us has come from. It tells us about
theism as well as about Christianity. It gives us a philosophy of
history as well as history. Moreover, the information on these
subjects is woven into an inextricable whole. It is only if you
reject the Bible as the word of God that you can separate the so-called
religious and moral instructions of the Bible from what it says, e.g.,
about the physical universe.
-- Cornelius Van Til, Christian
Apologetics (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed
Publishing Co., 1976), p.2.