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Panel addresses new challenges to inerrancy

On the surface, some dismiss biblical inerrancy as merely an intellectual issue. But, like most things, the surface can be misleading. Beneath the inerrancy debates -- including the intense controversy within the Southern Baptist Convention during the 1980s -- lies a moral battle: the authority of Scripture itself versus the authority of its reader.

In a panel discussion concerned with "Revisiting Inerrancy" at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Bruce Ware, a professor at Southern who attended Fuller Seminary during the height of the inerrancy debates in the mid-20th century, explained the conflict of authority.

"An inerrantist really has two fundamental questions when they read and interpret the Bible: First is, 'What does the Bible mean by what it says?' and second, 'What does it mean to my life?'" he said Sept. 27. "But if you deny inerrancy, you've got a middle question between those two ...

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10/10/12 2:03 PM

Jim Lincoln

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Ah, to get off politics, and to something that is actually important, the Bible.

I think you'll find that the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy with Exposition R.C. Sproul was part of the group that made this statement by the way. A John Ankerberg commentary on Biblical Inerrancy besides.

There aren't new challenges to inerrancy, just the same old ones.

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