tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post7122305337985120042..comments2024-03-28T09:52:15.415-04:00Comments on Common Denominator: Inspiration, Authority, Inerrancy, Infallibility...Ken Schenckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-1212654500266282712010-08-12T22:19:30.851-04:002010-08-12T22:19:30.851-04:00I'm quite happy with that description though s...I'm quite happy with that description though some might complain it makes other books inspired too. As someone who converted by reading Lewis I say so what? Heck, have we forgotten that all Christians are inspired by definition, since they have the Spirit of God?<br /><br />Apropos inerrancy I have to add that, IMO, Nietzsche is the best medicine for folks hammering on about this subject. Inerrancy is often a cloak for Protestant dogma, a part of the mediated (brokered?) institution of tradition which offers (but doesn't always deliver) access to God, Truth and Salvation through authorised channels and often for a profit.Marchttp://criticalBelief.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-37533875816757899182010-08-12T05:50:43.802-04:002010-08-12T05:50:43.802-04:00Yes... we can wonder if these categories are very ...Yes... we can wonder if these categories are very helpful. They are an artifact of the early to mid-twentieth century. All in all I suspect they more distract us from the business of hearing God in the word. I don't think they ever made anyone more godly or brought anyone to Christ. But as communities of faith, we inherit certain language and issues and as long as we are a part of those communities, they are part of our language and issues.Ken Schenckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745548537303356655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355052.post-31970729314056139332010-08-11T23:29:17.047-04:002010-08-11T23:29:17.047-04:00Nice try! I would like to try some different words...Nice try! I would like to try some different words. It seems to me that we get many responses to the faith - some submit, some rebel, some engage, and there is much that distracts. All of us do these things some of the time. If we engage, then we have this promise of a response. Be a little mad טעם as David says, and try it out (Psalm 34 when he was a little mad טעם in front of Abimelech). It is the Bible in a playful acrostic that makes this invitation. And it is the 'good' in verse 9 as the 'good' in Genesis 1 that makes the book what it is. That's the substance of inerrancy, and all those other things. There is a tendency for us all to want to 'figure it out' - but without the foolishness of faith, such figuring is a distraction.<br /><br />I'm glad I don't need to get any deeper than this in the word struggle.Bob MacDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11335631079939764763noreply@blogger.com