The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Scripture Inherency

Tom,

1. Methinks you mean INERRANT (without error, incapable of being wrong), rather than INHERENT (existing in something as a permanent, essential). You could say, however, that Scripture being divinely inspired is inherently inerrant.

2. Contrary to what this author writes, it is not "stupid to say that if the Bible is not [inerrant], then Christianity is false.", for if the Bible is 'God-breathed', then it must de facto be inerrant. And more salient to his statement, if the Bible is not inerrant, then it would be impossible to know truth and thus there could be no Christianity. Therefore, it is utterly brainless, illogical and even irrational to assert that it is 'stupid to say...'

This is just another expression of the modern fad to circumvent the biblical doctrine of verbal plenary inspiration in order to escape its teachings and their application. In short, it is a form of idolatry... creating a god and a religion after their own imagination.