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. [...]

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 [...]

We live in the 21st century. 21 centuries is a long, long time. Believers stand on a mountain of stories, adventures, trials, errors, wisdom, knowledge, growth, prosperity, setbacks, wars, romances, arguments, failed arguments, doctrinal development, and doctrinal decline. But, of course, none of that is of any use if we fail to remember or simply [...]