Good discussion, and some equally good thoughts scattered through the comments. Inerrancy and Textual Criticism
Inspiration
Sola Scriptura?
I received a question in email recently asking whether I’d ever blogged my understanding of sola Scriptura. I haven’t (so far as I can recall), but I hope I’ve illustrated where I’m at. Still, I though it would be worth jotting it down....
Dan Wallace Reviews “Defining Inerrancy” by Holding and Peters
This is a worthwhile review of what sounds like a worthwhile book. Readers know that I have long contended that any discussion of inerrancy requires serious discussion of the definitional problems. This book shows a keen awareness of that initial task. Wallace writes:...
Survey on “What Troubles You About Inspiration?” And a Rant
Thanks to all of you (nearly 50) who responded to my survey. It’s still open so that others can chime in. I’ll be using these thoughts as fodder for my trip to Nashville this week, as its goal is to experiment with creating some content / teaching videos...
The Errancy and Inerrancy Problem Illustrated: The Case of Genesis 48:21-22
I was recently received a question about inerrancy from a student in my MEMRA institute. Readers here know I’ve spent a lot of time on that subject (see the archived page). My short answer was that the difficulty in talking about inerrancy and errancy is...
Historically-Conditioned Scriptures
This short piece was posted by Larry Hurtado today. Good food for thought, especially in the context of our (now old) discussion of inspiration (which we will revisit at some point). Larry targets fundamentalists (read: black and white thinkers) on both the...
The Use of the OT in the NT
I had occasion to send this file to someone by email who asked whether or not NT writers used Second Temple Jewish interpretive methods when handling the OT. They do. We’ve talked about this subject a couple of times before, so I thought you’d be...
New Article on NT Canon
Check out this post over on Evangelical Textual Criticism. The post describes an article in the most recent JETS issue on the NT canon problem. Editor's note: link's content reproduced below,From Evangelical Textual Criticism: Chuck Hill in JETS, originally posted May...
More From John Hobbins on Canonicity: The Example of Qumran
First, sorry it took so long since my last post. Been swamped. I’m moving to John’s Appendixes on canonicity since, in my view, there’s more there we need to think of than his last couple of installments taken in order. In his “Appendix...
For Those Who Don’t Like the Bellingham Statement’s Articulation of Inspiration
If you don’t like the way I’ve described inspiration, notably: (1) my denial that God gave the words to each writer and (2) the subsequent notion that humans are the immediate source of Scripture while God is the ultimate source (and so BOTH are sources),...
John Hobbins’ Thoughts on the Revised Bellingham Statement
John Hobbins has once again added helpful commentary on the Bellingham Statement. I hope more will chime in, especially academically-trained bibliobloggers who have expressed concerns over inspiration and inerrancy. Editor's note: content of the link produced below,...
Another Proposed Bellingham Statement (Last One?)
Here goes another crack at a statement on inspiration and inerrancy (both!). I think what follows constitutes something that I hope readers will circulate. I’m not sure about the order things are addressed, so please pay attention to that. I have some modest...
Contributions to the Inerrancy Discussion
Kudos to John Hobbins for directing attention to the recent thoughts of others (and back here) on this issue. Read John's post, "Breathing New Life Into the Doctrine of Inerrancy" and follow the links. Editor's note: Content of the blog post is reproduced below, with...
Responses to Mr. Molina’s Second Reply
Mr. Molina writes: Could this be about how God sees/relates to history? He knows the end from the beginning, doesn’t this put Him then at an advantage (obviously, but bear with me) to “pull the strings” as it were of history, events and time, so that...
Responses to Mr. Molina’s First Reply
I’m posting this due to the length of Mr. Molina’s reply. I’ll follow this post with his second reply and my responses. See “MSH” for my thoughts. ——- (start of Mr. Molina’s statement on inspiration) I believe that God...