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biblical inspiration

How an Inerrant Bible Can Have Errors

November 17, 2021 by Randal

In this video, I explain how God can inerrantly include human theological errors within a plenarily inspired biblical text. For further discussion see my book Jesus Loves Canaanites: ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical inspiration, inerrancy, inspiration

The Imprecatory Pretzel: Why it doesn’t work to use the Psalms to curse your enemies

October 23, 2019 by Randal

Many Christians think that the imprecatory psalms provide models for how to curse one’s enemies. The hermeneutical assumption seems to be that the imprecatory psalmist’s declarations of hatred for his enemies and his desire that they be destroyed are sanctified and wholly correct statements and wishes. However, ask a person who takes that view when […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical inspiration, biblical violence, ethics, hermeneutics, imprecatory psalms

Why belief in divine inspiration commits the reader to wrestling with Scripture

June 14, 2019 by Randal

We begin with a tweet from Brian Zahnd: “Biblical inerrancy” is an empty signifier. Why? Because an inerrant text still has to be interpreted. Then you run into the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism (to borrow a phrase from Christian Smith). Plenty of people agree on inerrancy and disagree on everything else!” Next, we have a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical inspiration, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration

Are Angels and Demons Part of an Obsolete Biblical Worldview?

January 6, 2018 by Randal

In his book The Biblical Cosmos (which I just reviewed here), Robin Parry points out that the Bible is written against the backdrop of an ancient cosmology which we no longer accept in the modern world. For example, biblical writers assume a flat earth and a three-storied universe with heaven located physically above the earth. They assume […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: angelology, Bible, biblical cosmology, biblical inspiration, biblical worldview, demonology, inerrancy, worldview

Inerrancy: Still Hazy After All These Years

October 26, 2017 by Randal

I grew up in a Pentecostal fundagelical church where we prided ourselves on taking Scripture seriously. That meant, among other things, a commitment to literal interpretation. From a literal six days of creation to a literal thousand year millennium, we took Scripture in what we believed to be the natural sense. And that meant reading […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical inspiration, evangelicalism fundagelicalism, fundamentalism, inerrancy

Does the religious status of New Testament documents undermine their historical veracity?

October 22, 2015 by Randal

In his classic 1943 book The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?, F.F. Bruce makes the following observation: “Somehow or other, there are people who regard a ‘sacred book’ as ipso facto under suspicion, and demand much more corroborative evidence for such a work than they would for an ordinary secular or pagan writing.” This […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical inspiration, history, New Testament, skepticism

The Bible Tells Me So: A Review

September 24, 2014 by Randal

Peter Enns. The Bible Tells Me So… Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It. HarperOne: 2014. Like many Christians raised in the church, I grew up singing “The B-I-B-L-E Song” in Sunday school: The B-I-B-L-E Yes that’s the book for me, I stand alone on the Word of God, The B-I-B-L-E. Back […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, biblical inspiration, Peter Enns, revelation, scripture, The Bible Tells Me So

Happy trails to you

May 31, 2011 by Randal

“Tomorrow I fly to Notre Dame for something called the “Logos Workshop”, an interdisciplinary meeting of biblical scholars, philosophers, and theologians, to debate papers on the topic of hermeneutics and biblical inspiration from such luminaries as Kevin Vanhoozer and Eleonore Stump, with other luminaries like as Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff milling about in the crowd. Yes […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical inspiration, hermeneutics, Logos workshop, Notre Dame University

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