(For Part I, click here.) In the second part of this series, we bade farewell to the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy, and I promised you a way of determining which parts of the Bible we ought to believe.
An Apologetic for Liberal Christianity – Part II (“Inerrancy Rejected”)
(For the first part of this series, click here.) The Claim Some people believe that the Bible is inerrant. By this they mean that what the Bible says is invariably true, or that the Bible never goes wrong with respect to what it says, or that the Bible, properly interpreted, is always reliable, or any
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A mirror and not a canvas
What a relief, to know that I do not have to have my whole future mapped out but instead am required to quietly and steadfastly depend on God. The ambiguity of my life on earth takes on new meaning as I understand that I am running a different sort of race than the world expects me to. Instead of looking within myself into what appears to be a muddle of ugly contradictions and faults for assurance, I know that I am to look to God. Instead of a blank canvas, calling me to paint my own destiny, I am meant to be a mirror reflecting Christ. Paul reminds us of this beautiful calling in his letter to the church in Ephesus and to all believers everywhere: “Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God”. Ephesians 5:1-2 (NIV)
The Gospel Alone
Last week, my mom invited my uncle over for dinner so that he and I could continue our four-part debate on God, Christ, and the Bible. One of the more frustrating aspects of our debate was that he would conflate many issues. We would start out discussing free will and foreknowledge, and suddenly my uncle
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Plan A: Love, not Law
1. I AM the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. 2. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven
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The Myth of Half-Christianity
Continuing with the theme of things my high school friends have told me: Another friend of mine once said to me, “You know, Joe, I’m not very religious.” I remember being slightly surprised by his response – not because I thought he was particularly religious, but because I was not aware that “not very religious”
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Made Without Hands
Mark 14:55-58—“Now the chief priests and the whole Council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none. For many bore false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree. And some stood up and bore false witness against him, saying, “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple
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