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Sandy wrote:https://www.baptiststandard.com/opinion/voices/voices-came-affirm-inerrancy/
Jon Estes wrote:Sandy wrote:https://www.baptiststandard.com/opinion/voices/voices-came-affirm-inerrancy/
I guess he is no longer a Moderate. Wise man, he is.
Tim Bonney wrote:Did you all know that no one is having this conversation outside of the SBC? Having been in two other denominations since being Southern Baptist, it gives me some interesting perspectives. One of them is that the inerrancy debate is specific to Southern Baptists. In other denominations no one would know what you are talking about, even in denominations with definite faith statements about the Bible and its inspiration.
That doesn't mean talking about Biblical interpretation is unimportant. But the going around and around in circles arguing over the one interpretative English language term "inherency" or having anxiety over if one is an "inerrantist" or not is almost exclusive to the particular politics and history of Southern Baptists as far as I am able to tell.
Sandy wrote:
A few years ago, I'd probably have agreed with that. But I've encountered more Presbyterians up here in this part of the country than I ever had before, and this debate has taken place among them, and split or splintered a couple of denominations over it. For two of the more conservative groups, it is now a matter of "we're believe inerrancy more than you do," sort of thing. Identifying a specific doctrine and interpretation of inerrancy is a major deal among Christian schools of varying denominations, your choice of words identifies your whole doctrinal and denominational posture. I know of at least one school owned and operated by a United Methodist congregation that uses the ACSI statement of faith, which has a statement about belief in inerrancy, as their own.
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