The scholastic model holds the Bible to be the written revelation of God, a revelation ascertainable by human reason, though efficacious only for faith. There is said to be a virtual or actual identity between the Bible and revelation. The Bible becomes a book of revealed utterances or divine oracles. Faith assents to what reason can already know. The truth can be procured by a scientific or historical investigation of the Scriptures, but it can have no saving effect in one’s life apart from the