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 intended to deliver specific, direct...
Inspiration
God’s Word in Human Words: A Review
I thought this would be of interest to many of you given the inspiration and inerrancy discussion. Kenton Sparks of Eastern recently authored a book entitled, God's Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Biblical Scholarship. It is illustrative...
An Interlude: The Ahaziah-Jehu Problem
Well, Chet gave us a good example -- so good that I have to bump my next inspiration post. The conflicting accounts of the death of Ahaziah is a good example of a genuine problem for inerrancy. The late Raymond Dillard, former OT prof at Westminster called it "one of...
Parsing the “God Alone” View of Inspiration
I've tried to put forth what I think is the standard "only God is responsible for the Bible" view reflected in the Westminster addendum quotation (the theopneustos, not anthropopneustos one reproduced in two posts already). I've noted a few questions in the course of...
Sifting the Posts and Comments on Inerrancy
I thought it might be helpful to direct our attention to some specific thoughts / items that have appeared in posts or (mostly) comments. I've reproduced a dozen below. These thoughts seem to me to be fundamental to beginning a problem-solving path or paths. 1. To...
The Chicago Statement: The Good, the Bad, and the “wish it had said more”
The title pretty much sums up my feelings about the Chicago Statement. Below I have pasted its (sort of) preamble, and then its affirmations and denials. I've interspersed a few comments (blocked off). I. SUMMARY STATEMENT 1. God, who is Himself Truth and speaks truth...
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. Here's the result of the 2-3...
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:...
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 A" ("Thinking about Canon"),...