"...How do we justify belief in the Bible as our presupposition? Strange as it may sound, by the Bible itself, as I sought to do in chapters 23-28. the Bible is our highest standard of truth, the ultimate criterion. But an ultimate criterion must justify itself. It would be contradictory to try to justify an ultimate by appealing to something supposedly higher. But someone will object: isn't this a circular argument? We prove Scripture on the basis of the presupposition of Scripture. We appeal to Scripture to prove Scripture.
But if this is a problem for Christian thought, it is equally a problem for non-Christian thought. All systems of thought are circular in a sense when they seek to defend their ultimate criterion of truth. If I challenge a rationalist for accepting human reason as his highest principle, he can defend his view in only one way: by appealing to reason. For him there is nothing higher than reason to which he may appeal in justifying reason."
-- John Frame Systematic Theology (p. 734)
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