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The Errors of Inerrancy #8: Facebook Live Replay [video] (March 11, 2017)
If you missed today's live video discussion on The Errors of Inerrancy: #8 The Protestant Reformers Would Not Affirm Biblical Inerrancy (Martin Luther, John Calvin, et al.), then you may watch the video replay here, or watch it with comments on our PostBarthian FaceBook page.
In this video, I talk about Calvin's view […]
James Barr asks “Was Karl Barth a Fundamentalist?” (January 19, 2017)
James Barr interrogates Karl Barth in his book "Fundamentalism" to determine if Barth is a fundamentalist after all. Barr tells a story about a meeting between John Baillie and Karl Barth, in which Baillie strives to get Barth to confess that Methuselah did not really live 969 years as it […]
Related: Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist, Inerrancy, James Barr, John Baillie, Karl Barth, Methuselah
John Calvin’s Spectacles of Scripture (January 5, 2017)
John Calvin's Biblical Eyeglasses
The Reformed theologian, John Calvin, said the Bible is like eyeglasses that allow us to see God and without the spectacles of Scripture, we are like an old person with blurry vision and unable to see God or or see God in Creation. In the event of reading the Scriptures […]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #6 Inerrancy obscures Jesus with the Bible (January 3, 2017)
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
6. Inerrancy obscures Jesus with the Bible
John Calvin said that the Bible is similar to eyeglasses that allow us to see Jesus. If the Bible may be compared to eyeglasses, then Biblical Inerrancy may be […]
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #5 Inerrancy reduced the Biblical Authors into Ventriloquist Dummies
Inerrancy is a dictation theory of inspiration, commonly referred to as Plenary Verbal Inspiration, where each and every word of Scripture is precisely […]
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #4. Inerrancy denies that the Bible contains scientific errors
Introduction
Herman Bavinck said, "Scripture does not tell us how the heavens move but how we move to heaven." [1] And so, "It […]
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #2. Inerrant Original Autographs are a Tautology of Biblical Inerrancy
What are Inerrant Original Autographs?
The Inerrant Original Autographs are the linchpin of Biblical Inerrancy, but what are these hypothetical documents? I'll answer […]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #1 The Church has never possessed an inerrant Bible (September 27, 2016)
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #1. The Church has never possessed an inerrant Bible.
No one person or church has ever possessed an inerrant Bible, because Biblical Inerrancy "strictly speaking, applies only to the autographic text of Scripture" […]
How may we demonstrate that the Bible truly is a witness to the Word of God? By the inner testimony of the Holy Spirit alone! Karl Barth affirms this famous phrase from John Calvin because the only authority that may demonstrate that the Bible is of divine authority is God […]
John Calvin is often asserted to be a proponent of the literal and mechanical (and docetic?) doctrine of Inspiration of Scripture known as "Inerrancy". There is one passage in the Institutes of the Christian Religion in particular (IV.vii.9) that is often quoted a prooftext that Calvin held to Inerrancy. However, all theologians say […]
