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Response to John Hobbins’ Thoughts on the Bellingham Statement

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

What follows is some brief interaction with John Hobbins’ post about the Bellingham Statement (second draft as I recall).
John wrote, “I happen to think that Mike’s view of Scripture is not high enough. He backs away from upholding verbal inspiration.”
Actually, I don’t think this is the case at all.  What I back away from [...]

Guest Blogger: John Hobbins Responds to the Bellingham Statement

Friday, February 6th, 2009

John sent me what follows in an email, and I’m thrilled.  This is just what I was hoping for.  You’ll note we have disagreements (perhaps!). John doesn’t think my view of Scripture is “high enough.”  I’ll be responding to this soon, as I think part of the disconnect is that the way catch-phrases get defined [...]

Getting New Readers Caught Up on the Inspiration Discussion — and Resuming That Discussion

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

First, let me direct your attention to something I’ve added to the blog just below the blog’s name and tag-line:  a page entitled “Naked Bible’s Inspiration Discussion.” For those who are new to this blog, we’re in a discussion on inspiration — why, in the Naked Bible’s view — the Chicago Statement on Inerrancy has [...]

Bellingham Statement 3

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Here we go again. I want to rehearse a few things from the previous two statements.
In statements 1 and 2 I wrote:
“. . . the usual process of inspiration meant that the words of the text were given to the authors by God. Instead, human beings were, for the most part, the immediate source of [...]

Moving to Bellingham Statement 2

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Just so you don’t need to go back and look, Bellingham Statement 1 (the revised version) went like this:
I affirm that the Bible is revelation from God produced in writing through the agency of human authors. Although there are instances in the biblical record where God apparently dictated what would become part of the biblical [...]

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