Hello Gentlemen,
Jeff said:Would you care to share your opinion on how this premise IS obtained?
The premise is obtained through biblical exegesis, which is primarily an inductive exercise. Deduction plays a part as well, but induction's role is certainly much larger.
Civbert said:The implication is valid…It's an immediate implication. No middle term is required.
Here is what you have said is a valid immediate implication:
A: All Scripture is the Word of God.
I: "Jesus is the Christ" is the Word of God.
In the universal affirmative statement, the subject term is ‘Scripture’ and the predicate term is ‘the Word of God’. We will substitute ‘Scripture’ for the symbol ‘S’ and ‘the word of God’ for the symbol ‘P’. Applying this to the two categorical propositions above we get…
Only one question: what does Scripture mean?