RE: Essay about errancy

Fair enough :)

-Josh
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Roger G. Olson [mailto:rogero@saintjoe.edu]
>>Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 4:55 PM
>>To: Gough, Joshua
>>Cc: asa@calvin.edu
>>Subject: Re: Essay about errancy
>>
>>Josh,
>>
>>Responding to the following snippet:
>>
>>"Biblical inerrancy is the belief that the Bible is the inspired word
of
>>God. This means that espousers of Biblical inerrancy believe that the
>>Bible and all of its words in its original languages were inspired
>>directly by the will of God,..."
>>
>>I don't accept the equivalence of "inspiration" with "inerrancy". This
>>seems to be the crux of your dilemma. Maybe Matthew embellished the
>>story, that doesn't really bother me. I don't see how this affects
the
>>historicity of the resurrection of Christ -- the divine Hope of all
>>Christians.
>>
>>I'm not a qualified apologist, so I don't believe I can "defend" this
to
>>the infidel.org folks, nor do I wish to. And, I'm not "agreeing to
>>disagree" as per a common aphorism. :-)
>>
>>Roger
>>
Received on Mon Feb 2 17:05:16 2004