by Hal Eaton » Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:26 pm
To back up a bit: From T. D. Webb:
Hal Eaton wrote:
I am firmly convinced that almost everyone who says of the Bible, "I believe in inerrancy," doesn't believe in inerrancy.
Whether or not you are convinced of it, Hal, this Okie firmly believes that the inerrant and infallible authority of Scripture finds its basis in its Author, the inerrant and infallible sovereign God.
Oldad ripostes: If that thar Okie tells me believes in the inspired scripture's account of the cosmology of the universe, as expressed in the OT, and that he believes the creation account, together with the time table inherent in the belief, and that he endorses the routine capital punishment ordered in the OT for a good many folk, including misbehaving teen-agers, then I will offer no further comment on his "inerrancy."
There obviously comes a time when my personal stand-bys--reason, logic, common sense, the Christian version of God's love, and a few other basic doctrines under the heading of "I believe," are no longer useable. I acquiesce to others' "I believe."
Strange, though, that most of them end up trying to support their beliefs by reasons . . .
The boat won't float in academe.