The heart of this conflict was over the nature of the Bible’s inspiration. For Rice, who was virtually a “dictationist,” the matter was a simple either/or. Either God wrote the Bible or human beings did; it could not be both. Anyone who disagreed was either naively or purposely adopting a modernistic view. Tenney saw the issue otherwise. There was no reason why God could not have made use of human instruments, allowing them their full freedom as writers, and at the same time so guided them that they