The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Ray Vander Laan

Interesting that James Dunn, E. P. Sanders and N.T. Wright all did studies on Jewish religion, culture, history, etc., and the result was the "New Perspective on Paul" along with its offspring, e.g., Shepherdism and Federal Vision. Peter Enn's focused his study on the writings of pagan cultures and concluded that the contents of the Bible were influenced by these pagan cultures. And, I am sure there are many other "scholars" and non-scholars out there who all take a similar approach, which is to deny the internal testimony and self-attestation of Scripture to one degree or another which leads to a distorted (non-creedal) view of inspiration, a less than inerrant and/or infallible view therefore of the text and finally a diminishing of the authority of the Bible.

The Highway, of course, has a section on Scripture here: Sola Scriptura.

And, IF you are up to it, there is a very good book you can read/download online [i]A Disputation on Holy Scripture[/i] by William Whitaker which deals among other things the perspicuity, authority and interpretation of Scripture. This was a polemical work written against the Roman State Church but it is still very applicable generally to all who would take a non-historical, non-creedal view of the Bible.