The Hebrew scholar John Hobbins that I’ve often enjoyed (and time to time critiqued) has written a post entitled “Evangelical teachers have forgotten what inerrancy means.” He makes a number of interesting (and false) assertions that merits response. Why? First and most importantly, the doctrine of inerrancy is absolutely central to the Christian. We’re talking [...]

I recently came across the document on inerrancy by Professor Richard Burnett that’s stirring controversy at Erskine Theological Seminary (essay here, commentary here). Burnett’s misrepresentation of inerrancy is very unfortunate. Much of the essay is sarcastic and filled with argumentative errors. Just in passing, I found one quote of Richard Muller particularly troubling: A rather [...]

It’s true, word labels can be annoying. I have a friend who felt utterly alienated after she attended a Bible study where “being Reformed” and “seeing things in a Reformed perspective” was the essence of the evening. No one had ever really walked her through the doctrines of grace before, let alone what Reformed theology [...]

I’ve been dialoging with a friend (he said to go ahead and provide his blog link here) with regards to the age of the earth, views of Genesis, etc., and I think it might help others to read some of it: “- Yeah some of that can get annoying. I am particularly persuaded by the [...]

Herman Bavinck is one of the most thoroughly abused figures in Christian scholarship. Why? Because his work is so incredibly balanced. This makes it easy to quote him out of context. He is often mistaken for making assertions when he is simply playing the devil’s advocate for several pages. And, like the early church fathers, [...]

“If we carefully keep this distinction in mind [the distinction set forth by Catholic theologians] and apply it in our criticism and exegesis of Scripture, it may very well happen that many parts of Scripture, which up until now we had viewed as history, prove upon study not to be history in our sense at [...]

There are seven major myths about the doctrine of inerrancy that have been refuted during the ICBI 10-year summit. The first five objections have been refuted by official ICBI publications, while the last two have been refuted by ICBI members/Chicago Statement endorsers in similar publications. 1. Inerrancy isn’t biblical, so we shouldn’t believe it. Well, [...]