Note to all-
About a more sophisiticated defense of the conservative view...
When I was in seminary (it's hard to believe it was over 10 years ago
now), there was
a book I read called simply Inerrancy. Anyhow, I belive it was
published by the
International Council on Biblical Inerrancy. This book was written by team of
scholars and addressed many of the issues raised by Shuan
Again as a side note, those of us who have a more conservative view
of scripture
should thank brothers like Shuan who are pointing out holes and
issues in our theory
of inspiration. If we hold to the dictum that all truth is God's
truth, then we
should never be afraid to go where the evidence leads. (By the way, the phrase
'evidence leads' is loaded with meaning as all of us have interpretative lenses
(worldviews, assumptions, bias's, etc.) through which we view the 'facts'- this
explains why 2 equally skilled and educated scholars can arrive a different
conclusions). But, I digress.....
Anyhow, I have no problem holding a 'nuanced' conservative approach
as a working
theory of inspiriation, knowing full well that there are issues and
problems that we
conservatives simply have not solved- I even fully admit that maybe
this approach
will inevitably be found wanting, but none of this discussion will
shake me in my core
conviction (I guess this is the heart of faith) that it is rational
and reasonable to
believe in the core components of the salvation message- the death, burial and
resurrection of Jesus (which even the Apostle Paul indicated where
the cornerstone of
Christianity - 1 Cor. 15). So take heart, Christ is still Lord and
the Scriptures are
still a light of hope to humanity, even if we all don't agree on
admittedly important
matters like the nature of the Bible.
Have a great day!
Ron
Shuan Rose wrote:
> Thats probably true, Ron. I was painting with a broad
>brush. However, they
> are the most vocal and the most quick to condemn those who disagree. Thanks
> for your comment.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
> Behalf Of Ron Scheller
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 10:29 AM
> To: Shuan Rose
> Cc: Asa; Dan Pugh; John Woodworth; Pin H. Chen; Rick Grill; Tim Griffin
> Subject: Re: sciDocument.rtf
>
> Shuan:
>
> To be fair, I think you are caricaturing the conservative approarch when
> you use phases like "simple literalist interpretation" and "Conservative
> interpreters therefore see science as the enemy". It is true that there
> is a very vocal segment of conservatives who might be classifed as such
> (Creation Science advocates and the YEC crowd), but there are also
> conservatives who have a very nuanced view of verbal inspiration that
> recognizes that a wooden, literal approach is too simplistic, and
> therefore introduce many different literary genre in their
> interpretative activities (and yet try to integrate that approach with
> verbal inspiration).
>
> Oh well, just wanted to throw that it and see if it sticks.
>
> -Ron
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