The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum I've been reading Tim Challies' posts from . . .

Well, I don't know where you got the idea that the "Emerging Church Movement" advocates view Scripture as "narrative"? since within that movement which uses a post-modern approach to truth, i.e., it's all relative even if there is truth, there is a huge variety and divergence of thought.... or lack of thought or perhaps corruption of thought would be more accurate. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/giggle.gif" alt="" /> But where the NPP heresy focuses more on issues of "covenant", "predestination/election" and "justification/sanctification" specifically, the ECM silliness focuses more on how to "feel good about God via doing your own thing", etc. I think you would find that those captured by the heresies of NPP, FV, etc., are far more conservative in regard to the divine inspiration, infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture than most in the ECM. There are those, of course, who do give lip-service to divine inspiration but in practice they essentially deny it by ignoring what Scripture actually teaches. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" />

There are similarities between everything if you want to generalize enough. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rofl.gif" alt="" /> But there isn't really much essentially the same between NPP and ECM in regard to their respective views and/or uses of Scripture; ECM is exponentially worse in this particular area, IMHO.

In His grace,