Sentences with phrase «biblical inerrancy»

Downing takes it a step further and says, «it is no coincidence that the concept of biblical inerrancy developed in nineteenth - century England almost simultaneously with Darwin's idea of natural selection: both were influenced by Enlightenment empiricism.»

(London: Hodder and Stoughton; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1979); Freedom and Authority (Oakland: International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, 1981); Freedom, Authority and Scripture (Leicester: InterVarsity Press, 1982).

I've been called a heretic for believing that God will show mercy to the un-evangelized, a «cotton - candy Christian» for being an Arminian, a liberal for accepting evolutionary theory, and a «danger» for having questions about biblical inerrancy.

While those who advocate biblical inerrancy reject many of the findings of historical criticism, they still attempt to justify their own claims via the rational approach that historical criticism also employs.

Many biblical inerrancy fundamentalists look foolish and backward when they try to defend things that they shouldn't waste their time defending.

Willing to debate biblical inerrancy for weeks at a time but unwilling to serve at a soup kitchen one day a month is bullshit.

Yet they largely agreed with the fundamentalists on such questions as biblical inerrancy, the Virgin birth and the physical resurrection of Jesus.

Steve wrote: Many biblical inerrancy fundamentalists look foolish and backward when they try to defend things that they shouldnâ $ ™ t waste their time defending.

For those wanting to explore the issue of biblical inerrancy more deeply, the following article by Mark Mattison of Auburn University is an excellent starting point.

Evolution merely disproves Biblical Inerrancy and Young Earth Creationism.

Biblical inerrancy does not mean that we are to stop using our minds or accept what the Bible says blindly.

So, is the concept of biblical inerrancy nothing more than a byproduct of modern rationalism?

For evangelicalism, this meant that departing from theology of strict biblical inerrancy could only mean an inevitable move in the direction of consistent liberalism.

«As such, those institutions that advocate biblical inerrancy expend a great deal of time and energy attempting to offer explanations that will effectively reconcile any problems that they are presented with in the Bible.

I have observed that the people I personally know who spend inordinate amounts of time discussing Biblical inerrancy follow a program: 1) The Bible is absolutely inerrant, 2) The Bible says....

Geisler equates biblical inerrancy with his own interpretations of Scripture, and so when Licona offers an interpretation of Matt.

Biblical inerrancy examined.

So the short version of my reply is to refer you to «The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy».

Fortified by their belief in biblical inerrancy and convinced by Identity hermeneutics of the imminence of the Apocalypse, the Weavers retreated to the isolation of a distant mountain cabin at Ruby Ridge in rural Idaho.

As you can imagine, Dayton, Tennessee is not the most convenient place to have doubts about your faith or questions about biblical inerrancy, religious pluralism, and homosexuality.

So, IMO, the entire theological pissing contest over biblical inerrancy is moot.

In other words, if biblical inerrancy is not true, then God is not God.

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.

But such an understanding can not serve as a basis for Biblical inerrancy.

If the doctrine of biblical inerrancy is inaccurate then I would certainly have some concerns since the Bible claims to be perfect (Ps.

While speculating about why conservative Protestants tend to have lower levels of wealth, she points out that they believe in biblical inerrancy and that the Bible includes passages like «To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.»

For at least a decade and a half before the appointment of Tietjen to the presidency of Concordia Seminary, some of its faculty had begun to turn away from such understandings — though without claiming that this turn meant giving up biblical inerrancy.

I've been playing around with a new view on Biblical inerrancy this past month.

Biblical Inerrancy is loosely defined as the idea that the Bible is without error.

Historic fundamentalists would find them compromising, adapting, walking center lines and warning on one of the two main marks — the other being biblical inerrancy — of fundamentalism.

During the debate over «biblical inerrancy» that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s, I remember someone observing that Harold Lindsell's 1976 book, The Battle for the Bible, which pretty much got that debate going, was more a theory of institutional change than it was about theology as such.

Much emphasis was placed on the importance of building a strong foundation, which usually involved employing materials like the «concrete» of absolute truth, the «joists» of biblical inerrancy, and the «bearing walls» of Christian doctrine.

Those who utilized higher criticism and rejected biblical inerrancy could not be tolerated in Missouri Synod institutions.

SBC conservatives have much history on their side when they argue for a robust Baptist confessionalism, but they depart from the historic Baptist pattern when they restrict their doctrinal concern to the single issue of biblical inerrancy.

The watchword for such conservatives was biblical inerrancy, and this became the dominant theme in their successful effort to transform the theological seminaries and mission agencies of the denomination.

They published a pamphlet listing the «fundamentals of the faith:» Biblical inerrancy, the virgin birth, Adam and Eve.

Evangelicals have not always noted the complexity of the hermeneutical task; indeed, sometimes they have let themselves speak as if everything immediately becomes plain and obvious for believers in biblical inerrancy, to such an extent that uncertainties about interpretation never arise for them.

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?