It was a 7 post blog adventure, but we’re finished! It is my hope in this series that Christians can find confidence in the full truthfulness of the Scriptures, both in principle and in history. McGowan’s intentions seem to be genuine: let us seek balance and truth. Christians must not get over zealous of the [...]

A Brief Recap Before the Final Post This is the last post in our series on inerrancy and McGowan’s book The Divine Authenticity of Scripture before a brief conclusion. I’m spending a considerable amount of time critiquing McGowan’s work because, well, ultimately, if the Scriptures aren’t inerrant, we’re toast as believers who seek knowledge of [...]

Time to get back to McGowan… Theses Without Clarity I shall argue in this chapter that there is an older and better way to defend a ‘high’ view of Scripture: the ‘infallibilist’ view. I shall argue that this is a stronger, more sustainable and, above all, more biblical view of Scripture than the inerrantist view. [...]

“Perhaps the most striking problem with the rationalistic implication concerning inerrancy is that it limits God. It assumes that God can only act in a way that conforms to our expectations, based on our human assessment of his character.” – McGowan, The Divine Authenticity of Scripture, 118 James W. Scott really couldn’t have responded to [...]

The Inerrancy of the Autographa? I refused to support the Chicago Statement of Inerrancy for a number of years because A) I hadn’t looked into it enough, and B) I didn’t understand why the inerrancy of the autographa (original manuscripts of the Bible) really mattered, since we don’t have them anyway. And, wasn’t “inerrancy” just [...]

Typical, Repetitive, Baseless Assertions We’ve already documented that it is false to assert that Kuyper, Bavinck, and Calvin did not hold to what conservative scholars would today call “the doctrine of inerrancy.” Scriptural inerrancy is not a new invention and it is not an unfair conclusion to draw given the nature, inspiration, and the truthfulness [...]

Introduction As I planned in the intro to this series, it’s time to engage in some serious apologetic issues regarding the doctrine of inerrancy by examining a handful of blunders made by A.T.B. McGowan’s The Divine Authenticity of Scripture: Retrieving an Evangelical Heritage (2007). The ultimate purpose of this review series is to uphold the [...]