tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post2955416319522845861..comments2024-03-28T09:52:15.415-04:00Comments on Common Denominator: Bible versus Scripture: What does it mean?Ken Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-33640818952939321112010-08-10T22:52:15.114-04:002010-08-10T22:52:15.114-04:00Although it isn't often put like that, most Ev...Although it isn't often put like that, most Evangelicals I've read, heard or met place a premium on your view of the Bible so that to doubt it is to doubt God (so Grudem).<br /><br />However, if we are honest, the Bible does not equate itself with being "God's Word" nor could it do so not having been compiled at the time of writing. Jesus never mentions the "important books to come" and Paul, with one exception, writes his letters to specific communities never hinting at worldwide publication.<br /><br />When we choose to trust the Canon we are choosing to trust early church fathers and this needs highlighting. Trusting Canon is trusting men, not God and one can doubt Scripture and still be 100% faithful to the one whom Scripture testifies. Indeed, sadly, the opposite is true.Marchttp://criticalBelief.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-88263335073471213362010-08-09T19:10:01.740-04:002010-08-09T19:10:01.740-04:00Ken,
I just stumbled onto your blog. This post is...Ken,<br /><br />I just stumbled onto your blog. This post is fantastic. Thanks for sharing your views. The way Christians choose to view the Bible is the largest root of many of our cultural battles today.<br /><br />RD<br />ced3-at-allmail-dot-netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-58526363107136430472010-08-06T21:16:26.229-04:002010-08-06T21:16:26.229-04:00The 9 theses of the Scripture Project, found in th...The 9 theses of the Scripture Project, found in the first chapter of Hays and Davis' <i>The Art of Reading Scripture</i> is a good place to start. We also read Joel Green's book <i>Seized by Truth</i>, although I find him better at expressing general sentiments than in showing us what his ideas look like when it gets down to the nitty gritty.<br /><br />My book <i>Making Sense of God's Word</i> provided concrete inductive Bible study method and my overall hermeneutical reflections in condensed form.<br /><br />Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart's <i>Reading the Bible for All Its Worth</i> served as a good modernist evangelical presentation of hermeneutics and genre. At many points I critiqued it as locked in a cultural period that is passing.<br /><br />I. Howard Marshall's <i>Beyond the Bible</i> is still modernist evangelical, but he is British and thus without intending to do so exposes some of the more cultural features of American evangelicalism. He sees that the Bible includes development of doctrine and that it sets trajectories beyond Scripture.<br /><br />Finally, we used James Efird's now dated <i>How to Interpret the Bible</i> to know what mainline modernist scholarship is saying about critical issues in the Bible.Ken Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-27352797631069452562010-08-06T11:08:44.078-04:002010-08-06T11:08:44.078-04:00Greetings. Can you please recommend some books rel...Greetings. Can you please recommend some books related to this post that you are reading or having the class read?<br />Thank you.<br />John C. GardnerJohn C.Gardnernoreply@blogger.com