I really don’t like basketball (“ball in Mike’s court”), so the boxing metaphor is substituted! Once again, I’m pleased to chat with John and the rest of you in regard to his latest post responding to my comments on his revision of my...
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Response to John Hobbins’ Thoughts on the Bellingham Statement
What follows is some brief interaction with John Hobbins’ post about the Bellingham Statement (second draft as I recall). John wrote, “I happen to think that Mike’s view of Scripture is not high enough. He backs away from upholding verbal...
Guest Blogger: John Hobbins Responds to the Bellingham Statement
John sent me what follows in an email, and I’m thrilled. This is just what I was hoping for. You’ll note we have disagreements (perhaps!). John doesn’t think my view of Scripture is “high enough.” I’ll be responding to this soon,...
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...
Another Whack at Bellingham Statement 1
Here’s the text of the original Bellingham Statement 1. I affirm that the Bible is revelation from God produced in writing through the agency of human authors. This agency involved human authors writing on the basis of their own abilities, education, styles,...
Accounting for Rare Instances of Dictation (Response)
I’m back – with thanks to all of you for your patience and input on the first of what will be many statements for the “Bellingham Statement” on inspiration and inerrancy. I think I can manage my schedule now – which means posting at...
Bellingham Statement 1
In no particular order, what I’m going to do in the ensuing posts is to write out statements of affirmation and denial and hope that readers critique the language in careful, constructive ways. Naturally, after we get a bunch of these posted it may become clear...
The Naked Bible’s Thoughts on Inspiration, Part 3 – The Myth of the Holy Stapler
In the previous two posts I’ve laid out my thoughts on the relationship of the human writers to God’s role in producing the Scriptures. I have argued that it is flawed thinking to deny that Scripture originated with humans in ANY sense; that is,...