Post from the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog. Editor's note: Link's content reproduced below,From Evangelical Textual Criticism: John Updike and the Problem of the Original Text, originally published February 20, 2009. John Updike and the Problem of the Original...
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The Rest of My Comments on the Chicago Statement
Not much is new in here as far as my thoughts, but I promised I'd complete this by month's end. I'm now going to try and put my "Bellingham Statement" into 4-5 paragraphs and see if I can't get some other biblio-bloggers of note to weigh in on it. Here's the rest of...
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...
Article IX of the Chicago Statement
I got a bit carried away with Article IX, so I didn't post all the rest of the articles and my responses to them here. Here's Article IX: Article IX. WE AFFIRM that inspiration, though not conferring omniscience, guaranteed true and trustworthy utterance on all...
Let’s Talk About Divine Accommodation
So far in my forays into inerrancy, on the heels of laying out my thoughts on inspiration, I've put forth the idea (with the help of Chet) that I just want to make sure the Bible is taken on its own terms, not terms that we, in the wake of Enlightenment empiricism,...
The Naked Bible’s Thoughts on Inspiration, Part 1
I've reached a point with this subject where I think it's time to just start putting out what I think about inspiration and inerrancy. It'll probably take a few posts on the former before I get to the latter. Your comments have been helpful, but I'm sensing that I...
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...
Pre-Scientific Worldview “Problem” and Inerrancy
Taking off on Chet's lengthy response to my "Definitions of Inerrancy" post: The first thing I'd like to pursue is Chet's criticism of the word "affirm" -- I also think it's a weasel-word. You quote 1 Cor. 11:14, which says, "Does not nature itself teach you that if a...