Not exact matches
Contrary to the assertion thrown at those of us who reject
biblical inerrancy and / or infallibility, we don't just go around throwing out the parts we don't like.
New loyalties are emerging as such insights are combined with the values young evangelicals find in the
biblical interpretations of William Stringfellow, Jacques Ellul, John Howard Yoder, Dale Brown and others who
do not share the «
inerrancy» assumption.
To critics of
biblical inerrancy, it sounds like we Christians are making the same argument as this man uses: Is this what we
do with Scripture?
From Enns: «As a
biblical scholar who deals with the messy parts of the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament), I came away with one recurring impression, a confirmation of my experience in these matters: mainstream American evangelicalism, as codified in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, doesn't really know what to do with the Bible as a historical text
biblical scholar who deals with the messy parts of the Bible (i.e., the Old Testament), I came away with one recurring impression, a confirmation of my experience in these matters: mainstream American evangelicalism, as codified in the Chicago Statement on
Biblical Inerrancy, doesn't really know what to do with the Bible as a historical text
Biblical Inerrancy, doesn't really know what to
do with the Bible as a historical text.»
The largest truth we can discover about the Fundamentalist war cry of «
biblical inerrancy» is that it has almost nothing to
do with anyone's actual experience of reading the Bible.
- I
do not expect any return to the strict
inerrancy assumption on the part of informed
biblical scholarship.»
A few years ago, in a moment of lonely desperation, I googled something having to
do with «Christians against
biblical inerrancy» (for some reason you were on the first or second page of search results...) because I was trying to find out if there was anyone else who was thinking about the Scriptures in a different way from what I had encountered.
And if so, doesn't that strike at the heart of
biblical inerrancy?
He
does not mention belief in
Biblical inerrancy or salvation by faith.
You can believe I have
done my homework and I find the explanations offered by
biblical literalists and
inerrancy types to be not just ridiculous but extremely insulting.
The foundation of Christianity doesn't rest on the doctrine of
biblical inerrancy.