Clearly, then, if the infallibility of Scripture is denied, it is denied only in order to ascribe infallibility to nature, to man, or to some aspect or institution of man. But another necessity ensues. A necessary aspect of the doctrine of infallibility is the total self-consciousness of whatever or whoever is infallible. For orthodox Christians, this means, as Cornelius Van Til has so ably pointed out, that God is totally self-conscious. There is no unconscious or subconscious mind in God, nor does