Sentences with phrase «modern inerrancy»
While biblical criticism examines these claims without presupposing that the words are divinely given, the approach of the modern inerrancy writers is one that affirms the absolute factual accuracy of the text and then seeks to explain away any conflicts.
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«Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages — the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity — are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.»
So, is the concept of biblical inerrancy nothing more than a byproduct of modern rationalism?
«11» Non-inerrantist Jack Rogers countered more candidly that he resented the Council's use of the term «historic» to refer to what is in reality a «modern» notion of inerrancy.12
A modern concept of inerrancy involving scientifically precise language was of course unknown prior to the rise of modern science.
In his earlier writing, Pinnock's Biblically derived qualifications concerning inerrancy were based on the facts that modern historiography was unknown in Biblical times, that writers use the language of simple observation (e. g., the sunrise), that figurative and mythological language is used (Isa.
Similar to Pinnock, but declining to use the word «inerrancy» because of its modern connotations, is David Hubbard.
Yet it is this very process of rational justification that makes fundamentalism a very modern phenomenon, one that sets it at odds with the more ancient tradition of inerrancy found within the Church.»
Its as if the modern Church has decided that what makes the Bible sacred is its inerrancy, that what qualifies it as the Word of God is its historical and scientific accuracy.
The author looks at why we can not simply assert the truth of the Bible over our modern common sense and shows that Biblical literalism / inerrancy is an approach to the Scriptures that is unacceptable both to our reason and to our faith.
I think there are ways to argue that Paul thought that maybe he was writing inspired Scripture, BUT, I don't know if he would have agreed with some of the modern definitions of «inspiration = inerrancy.»
Reconciling the words of these inspired prophets with the modern understanding of inspiration and inerrancy is a difficult task indeed.
For modern Western Christians, words like authority, inerrancy, infallibility, revelation, objective, absolute, and literal are crucial.