Hebrews 2:6 and God Speaking
I add some comments to those of another blogger over on my Participatory Bible Study blog. This passages speaks to our understanding of what inspiration and god-breathed actually mean in practice.
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Excellent Links on Pentecost + 25 – Cycle C
ByhenryLet me start with Energion author Bruce Epperly, who blogs at The Adventurous Lectionary. I always find his perspective on these texts interesting and challenging. Overall, he describes this lectionary as dealing with the authority of prophets and world spiritual leaders. We can experience inner authority by aligning ourselves with God?s vision of the future,…
Imperfections in Scripture
ByhenryLee at The Dubious Disciple generously and kindly reviewed my book When People Speak for God. In that review, he included the following sentence: A discussion of inerrancy follows, and how Henry’s recognition of the Bible’s imperfections has not disturbed his reverence for God’s Word. Now before I discuss this line, let me emphasize that…
Speaking of Inerrancy
Byhenry(I’m crossposting this from my Participatory Bible Study blog.  It’s too short to bother with extract and link.) I found this post by Roger Olson via my reader (HT:  Chrisendom) and it reminded me of my own recent post Inerrancy – Romancing the Term. Though my experience is largely outside of academia, I can relate to much…
The Trials of Mike Licona
ByhenryI actually didn’t know who Mike Licona was until a few weeks ago, but I’ve discovered that he is a Christian writer who is a strong supporter of the historicity of the resurrection and generally defends the historicity of the Bible. Unfortunately for him, he recently suggested the possibility—just the possibility, mind you—that Matthew 27:51-53…
MBWR #136 Posted
ByhenryAt Allan R. Bevere. Thanks again to Allan for this contribution to the Methodist blogosphere.
Why I Still Don’t Like Inerrancy
ByhenryAndrew Wilson has a post on The Gospel Coalition (Voices) blog titled Why I don’t Hate the Word Inerrancy. In a certain way I have to agree with his conclusion: But I don’t think the answer is to hate the word. If we were to abandon every word that had been tainted by poor use,…