Inerrancy

Does the Bible Contain Logic Fallacies? (podcast)

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Greg and Dan break down the Ad Hominem and wonder if the apostle Paul is guilty of this logic fallacy.  Episode 596 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0596.mp3

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The Bible Contains Errors

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Throughout the Gospels, Jesus expressed an unqualified confidence that Scripture infallibly communicates the will of God. He consistently referred to it when deciding matters related to faith. This same attitude was also adopted by the…

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When the Bible has Errors

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In the previous post, we dealt with the question of why we are able to trust Scripture. But we need to explore this further because if you read the Bible carefully, you will find parts…

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The Bible is Infallible NOT Inerrant

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While the cruciform understanding (explained here) of the “God-breathed” nature of Scripture is in tension with the way most talk about inerrancy (See previous post on inerrancy), I do not believe it is at all incompatible with what…

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An Alternative to Biblical Inerrancy

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As with all other theological issues, when it comes to affirming that Scripture is “God-breathed,” everything hangs on where one starts. A dominant strand of the Evangelical tradition started with the assumption that, if God is…

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A Review of a Review of Benefit of the Doubt

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I’d like to offer a brief response to a curious on-line review of Benefit of the Doubt,  published on thechristians.com. It’s titled, Which came first, Jesus or the Bible? A clever heretic draws a false…

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The Idolatrous Devotion to Inerrancy

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Luca Rossato via Compfight Ed Cyzewski posted some thoughts on his blog on why he hates the word “inerrancy”. He agrees with something Greg has been saying for a while now that seems shocking to many:…

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Bible in the shadow of the Cross

Answering an Objection to a Cross-Centered Approach to Scripture

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Through Greg’s Facebook and Twitter, we’ve been getting some great feedback and questions regarding his cross-centered approach to Scripture. Several have voiced questions similar to the reader’s (below), so we thought it would be helpful to post Greg’s answer here on his blog.

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How The Imperfections of Scripture Reveal God Perfectly

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In my previous blog I discussed one important implication of a cruciform (“cross-centered”) approach to biblical inspiration. On the cross, I noted, God revealed his perfection by identifying with human imperfection. Jesus in some sense…

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Scripture’s God-Breathed Imperfections

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“Inerrancy” of Scripture

As a conservative evangelical who accepted the “inerrancy” of Scripture, I used to be profoundly disturbed whenever I confronted contradictions in Scripture, or read books that made strong cases that certain aspects of the biblical narrative conflict with archeological findings.

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