The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Scripture Inherency

The problem is his view is self-contradictory and illogical. He wants to affirm the physical coming of Christ into this world and that He made atonement for sin so that salvation was secured [I obviously have no idea what his doctrine of soteriology is so I don't want to accredit him with something he doesn't believe.]

HOW DOES HE KNOW THAT? The only source that reveals the details of who God is, e.g., Trinitarian, the Fall of mankind, the sending of the second person of the Trinity to take upon Himself human flesh, live a perfectly holy life according to the law of God, offer a vicarious substitutionary atonement on the cross, be buried and then rise from the dead, etc., etc. is the BIBLE. If the Bible contains errors, regardless of the authorship of it, then there is no assurance that ANYTHING in the Bible is factual and therefore reliable. Either the Scriptures are the divinely inspired, infallible and inerrant written Word of God or they are nothing more than another book of random religious writings that mean nothing to anyone other than those who personally revere them as something special, aka: idolatry.

You cannot have a religion of truth if truth is allusive and only partial. If the Bible is errant, how does he know what is true and what is false? It's the identical problem the Liberals have always had when for whatever reason they reject the divine inspiration of Scripture, e.g., Rudolph Bultmann demythologized the Bible by denying supernaturalism, relegating anything that was supernatural, e.g., miracles, etc. as pure 'myth'. Karl Barth taught that the Bible is not the written divinely inspired Word of God, but it only contains the word of God which becomes the Word of God during a religious experience. There are countless views that deny all that Divine Inspiration entails, but they all have one thing in common... There is no way to determine absolute truth, and thus it falls upon each individual to determine what is true for them.

So, this man is lost in a sea of confusion in regard to the identity and nature of the Bible. And, you can be sure that the reason he has fabricated this view is that there he has a rejection of something Scripture teaches and/or an attempt to mix worldly philosophy with Christianity... or perhaps some other nonsensical reason.

Once again, you cannot believe anything for certain if everything is subject to error. Believing falsehood serves no purpose other than to display one's total stupidity.