Inerrancy

Gordo quotes Mark Thompson.

I heartily agree. It's an important doctrine and I find the various denials and softenings of the doctrine unpersuasive, slippery and potentially destructive.

Posted by Mikey Lynch at 6:22 AM

4 comments:

dan said...

It's interesting to see Mark talking about the positive expressions like 'utterly truthful'. These expressions are in keeping with the grain of the bible. Though he says you lose ancient pedigree if you let go of inerrancy. I'd like to think about this a bit. What else is lost if you move to a positive expression???

7:25 AM  
Luke said...

begin:soapbox
Like "trinity," "inerrancy" as a word was invented to describe a concept already present in Scripture and tradition. I want to do a blog post some time showing that this is true from tradition. For example Augustine attacking Jermone at one point because Jermone thinks the argument between Peter and Paul was a mistake and the real truth is that they agreed. Augustine argues that we have to take it as pure truth, apparent contradictions and all. (Which is the doctrine of inerrancy.) So it's incorrect when people say it's a modern concept.
end:soapbox

8:52 AM  
michael jensen said...

I am with Dan here. I think inerrancy as it is currently expressed rather baffling. And Gordon's slippery-slope argument proves nothing.

7:54 AM  
Mikey Lynch said...

I'm not sure if Dan is asserting much to agree with Michael?

What's baffling about using inerrancy?

What fails in the slippery slope argument?

8:48 AM  

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