Inerrancy
October 13, 2009
Rev. Wes Bredenhof is writing a series of blog entries on the subject of Biblical inerrancy over on his blog, and I urge you to check them out:
www.bredenhof.ca
And an interesting quote from John Calvin's introduction to his commentary on the gospel of John:
John is believed to have written chiefly with the intention of maintaining the Divinity of Christ, in opposition to the wicked blasphemies of Ebion and Cerinthus; and this is asserted by Eusebius and Jerome, in accordance with the general opinion of the ancients. But whatever might be his motive for writing at that time, there can be no doubt whatever that God intended a far higher benefit for His Church. He therefore dictated to the Four Evangelists what they should write, in such a manner that, while each had his own part assigned him, the whole might be collected into one body; and it is our duty now to blend the Four by a mutual relation, so that we may permit ourselves to be taught by all of them, as by one mouth.
The words of someone who would not have agreed with the following statement?
5. The authority of Scripture is inescapably impaired if this total divine inerrancy is in any way limited or disregarded, or made relative to a view of truth contrary to the Bible's own; and such lapses bring serious loss to both the individual and the Church.
I think not.
The statement is from the Chicago statement on Biblical Inerrancy, 1978, and history has proven the correctness of its final phrase. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
www.bredenhof.ca
And an interesting quote from John Calvin's introduction to his commentary on the gospel of John:
John is believed to have written chiefly with the intention of maintaining the Divinity of Christ, in opposition to the wicked blasphemies of Ebion and Cerinthus; and this is asserted by Eusebius and Jerome, in accordance with the general opinion of the ancients. But whatever might be his motive for writing at that time, there can be no doubt whatever that God intended a far higher benefit for His Church. He therefore dictated to the Four Evangelists what they should write, in such a manner that, while each had his own part assigned him, the whole might be collected into one body; and it is our duty now to blend the Four by a mutual relation, so that we may permit ourselves to be taught by all of them, as by one mouth.
The words of someone who would not have agreed with the following statement?
5. The authority of Scripture is inescapably impaired if this total divine inerrancy is in any way limited or disregarded, or made relative to a view of truth contrary to the Bible's own; and such lapses bring serious loss to both the individual and the Church.
I think not.
The statement is from the Chicago statement on Biblical Inerrancy, 1978, and history has proven the correctness of its final phrase. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."