Continued from Objection to Biblical Inerrancy #7 An eighth objection is that inerrancy is too complicated . Daniel Day complains that the inerrancy claim prima facie is that there is no error anywhere of any kind, but then its claimants “undermine its claims with exclusions and exceptions so as to permit wiggle room for this or that indisputable finding of science or for some post-biblical social revolution, proving that the initial ground staked out was too high.” [1] Day is talking about Article XIII of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy , a paragraph on the phenomena of Scripture. We affirm the propriety of using inerrancy as a theological term with reference to the complete truthfulness of Scripture
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Objection to Biblical Inerrancy #8
Recently, readers of the Washington Post have been subjected to large and unhealthy helpings of treacle during breakfast, to the point where we're starting to think about keeping a bucket handy. A couple of weeks ago, it was television columnist Tom Shales who had readers sputtering into their cornflakes with an account of President Obama at a press conference that read like a 12-year-old girl’s description of Edward Cullen . The star of The Barack Obama Show was “comfortingly cool and collected,” “articulate,” “friendly,” “accessible,” “gracious to a fault,” a man of “perfect comic timing,” and, on the whole, “flabbergasting.” Apparently he had even developed superpowers, as Shales swore that Obama “made eye contact with us folks at home” through the television screen
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Arms and the woman
At the end of the twentieth century, the battlefields over the inerrancy of the Bible were as wide as the Pacific Theater and as fully engaged in close combat as Antietam. Since the commencement of the twenty-first, the battle has continued as stark and entrenched as Somme. In the cacophony of that battlefield, with its shrill war whoops, its booming weaponry, and its great effusion of ink, there is one narrow but significant target of interest on the battlefield of inerrancy
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Objections to Biblical Inerrancy #1 & #2
From Examiner.com: Reports say that Stephenie Meyer ’s hit book series Twilight , New Moon , Eclipse , and Breaking Dawn have been removed from a religious bookstore (The Deseret)’s shelves because it has been “met with mixed review” by the store’s customers. According to the report, the store is owned by the Mormon church, and its primary revenue stems from religious book sales. While The Host remains on the shelves, says the report, the Twilight series has been taken from this Mormon bookseller’s listing
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Twilight de-shelved by Mormon bookstore: beginning of religious backlash?
Web definitions for hypocrite a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives Hypocrite: 1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs
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We claim diversity, and became Hypocrits