GTJ 1:1 (Spr 1980) p. 75 Revelational rational-empiricists have asserted that to accept the Bible as true based on its own witness is to reason in a circle and thus remove Christianity from the arena of intellectual credibility. Pinnock boldly asserts that the position of self-witness is nothing but fideism and puts it in the camp of neo-orthodoxy and Mysticism.7 The immediate point to be noted is that the argument has dealt with the objective content of revelation