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Contextualizing Inerrancy

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  • Contextualizing Inerrancy

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    What's the new resource at Deeper Waters? Let's plunge into the Deeper Waters and find out.

    What is inerrancy? It's a question that normally if you ask ten evangelicals you'll get eleven opinions. An even more controversial question would be what counts as going against inerrancy? There's also the problem that today, the inerrancy of Scripture is often equated with the inerrancy of interpretation.

    In a new resource available just recently, my ministry partner, J.P. Holding of Tektonics.org, and I look at the question of inerrancy. The book is called Contextualizing Inerrancy and you can find it here. The goal of the book is to go further than our Defining Inerrancy and include some real scholarly interaction.

    What we do in this work is not just look at the topic of inerrancy, but see what some scholars say by reviewing their work on the topic. There are many people that don't just disagree with someone's interpretation on a particular text, but contend that by taking on that interpretation, that person has denied inerrancy. Most notably is the case of Norman Geisler going after Mike Licona. (And for those who don't know, possible bias on my part is that Mike is my father-in-law.)

    Those of us who are contextualizers do not believe that the text can be fully divorced from the context. This includes not just the Biblical context, but the social context. There are a number of remarks I could say to my wife that would grant her and me instant laughter. Most everyone else would not understand them. Why? Because there is a background knowledge known between the two of us that explains the context.

    We hold that the Biblical writers also lived in a culture where they did not have to explain the culture. We do not live in that culture and we have to do the work to find out about it. While this includes studying the original languages, it goes beyond that. It looks at archaeology and other writings of the time to find out what life was like. We use all of this to inform our interpretation. How can study of the Biblical text be damaged by studying the world of the Bible?

    With this, we look at evangelical scholars today and the work that they're doing to see how that helps with the question. Our goal is to help Christians have a more refined look at Scripture and in the end, we hope you'll walk away with a greater appreciation for the Bible. After all, anyone can pick up a book and find something about it to criticize, and many people are doing just that, but few will sadly bother to take the time to actually really study and see if their criticisms are accurate.

    I really hope you'll go and partake of this resource and share it with a friend as well. Christmas is here and this could be a great gift for someone as well. We appreciate every copy that you buy and we also hope that you'll leave a positive review.

    In Christ,
    Nick Peters

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    Originally posted by Apologiaphoenix View Post
    . . . What is inerrancy? It's a question that normally if you ask ten evangelicals you'll get eleven opinions. An even more controversial question would be what counts as going against inerrancy? There's also the problem that today, the inerrancy of Scripture is often equated with the inerrancy of interpretation. . . .
    Amen! This is one of the biggest problems in the OE vs YE controversy, and some other areas of major disagreement. If, for example, I agreed with the YE interpretation I would have to agree with the YE beliefs or be heretical.
    Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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