Re: NT inerrancy??

Howard J. Van Till wrote:
>
> >From: wallyshoes <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
>
> Two questions:
>
> >> > Are we all Bible worshipers or Christ followers?
>
> > In fact why are we Christians so adamant about infallibility when the Bible
> > never comes right out and makes such a claim?
>
> Good questions, Walt. One cannot help but notice how much time and energy is
> spent on this list to protect the (humanly crafted) concept of biblical
> infallibility and other propositions that serve to place the Judeo-Christian
> canon in an elevated category totally different from the canonical texts of
> all other religious communities.

        OTOH one can hold (as many critical Christians do) that the Bible differs in
significant ways from other religious texts, not because of pre-critical ideas about
inerrancy or infallibility but because of the history & person - Jesus - to which it
bears witness & which it interprets.
        Which is to say that it isn't necessary to insist upon such ideas of inerrancy,
or the belief that all the narratives of scripture are accurate history, in order to
hold that the Bible is in an important sense unique. & dropping those ideas does not
mean that the Bible is at the same level as other religious texts.

                                                        Shalom,
                                                        George

George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Wed Dec 31 09:01:10 2003