I have just read Terry's excellent post. It expresses my views on inerrancy
and the Chicago Statement as well as anything I could compose. Chapter I of
the Westminster Confession of Faith, by which you, as a Presbyterian
minister, vowed to be guided, teaches the same concept of inerrancy without
using the word.
Let me take this opportunity to encourage you not to let your reply to what
David, George, and I have written in response to your original challenge
drift off into a matter of definitions about what inerrancy is or isn't.
Your original challenge to us was to show that certain shocking commands in
the OT could have been spoken by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ. I sought to show that those commands were applications of
principles found in the NT as well, indeed, even enunciated by Jesus Christ
himself. I hope you address that issue squarely.
Bob Rogland
-----Original Message-----
From: John W Burgeson <burgytwo@juno.com>
To: asa@calvin.edu <asa@calvin.edu>
Date: Friday, June 28, 2002 3:46 PM
Subject: Question to David Campbell, Robert Rogland and George Murphy
>
>
>This afternoon I was reading the responses to my earlier challenges by
>you. It does seem that the issue of "biblical inerrancy" plays an
>important part in our understandings (or misunderstandings).
>
>I found the following definition on a web site and wonder if it in any
>way corresponds to your understanding. I suspect it may be too
>fundamentalist, but I'm not sure.
>
>Article XII of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy reads: "We
>affirm that Scripture in its entirety is inerrant, being free from all
>falsehood, fraud, or deceit. We deny that Biblical infallibility and
>inerrancy are limited to spiritual, religious, or redemptive themes,
>exclusive of assertions in the fields of history and science. We further
>deny that scientific hypotheses about earth history may properly be used
>to overturn the teaching of Scripture on creation and the flood."
>
>John Burgeson (Burgy)
>
>http://www.burgy.50megs.com
> (science/theology, quantum mechanics, baseball, ethics,
> humor, cars, philosophy and much more)
>
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