Just a Thought: I believe, teach and preach that the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God. For the record, I also believe the Bible was inerrant in its original manuscripts. But inerrancy is for me a secondary and problematic doctrine, the product of a modernist over reliance on scientific reasoning. All of the scholars who teach inerrancy acknowledge we do not have the original manuscripts; Obviously, God did not consider it important to preserve them. In spite of what is stated on the official Church of God web site, the General Assembly of the Church of God (the highest governing authority of my denomination) has never endorsed the doctrine of inerrancy. This is phenomenal in that the Declaration of Faith was adopted at the time when the Church of God was becoming a founding member of the National Association of Evangelicals and inerrancy was a litmus test for most Evangelicals of the day. It is unfortunate that many Pentecostals have confused faith in the Scriptures as inspired and therefore infallible and authoritative with a modernist reduction of the Bible to an artifact of a bygone time when God actually spoke. (Continued tomorrow) JDJ #265
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:29:06 +0000
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