B.B. Warfield, On Why the Bible Is Necessary

“If sinful man is to be saved he must be saved against his will. He hates God. God’s work of salvation must be a work into territory that belongs to him by right but that has been usurped by King Diabolus. And the government illegitimately in control of man’s soul controls all the means of entrance, through eye gate, ear gate and nose gate. So an entrance has to be forced. Concrete has to be built under water. And when God by grace makes friends with the enemy country these friends are still but creatures. They are as much as was Adam in need of supernatural world revelation. And they are, even so, often and always to an extent under the influence of the old man within them and so would even when redeemed never be able to interpret mere revelational facts correctly and fully. Hence the necessity of Scripture” (The Inspiration and Authority of the Bible)