tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post1701223216844787446..comments2024-03-27T15:34:14.749-07:00Comments on dangerous idea: Craig Blomberg and the argument that scholars who teach at schools that require inerrancy statements are biasedVictor Repperthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10962948073162156902noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-73790830926860732872010-09-04T19:25:40.665-07:002010-09-04T19:25:40.665-07:00Well if I may flex my Catholic bias.
Innerancy is...Well if I may flex my Catholic bias.<br /><br />Innerancy is not the problem & there is no logical reason to reject innerancy. It's Innerancy plus the so called perspicuity of Scripture which is the problem.BenYachovhttp://www.catholic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-85633933636824475302010-09-04T07:39:43.164-07:002010-09-04T07:39:43.164-07:00All of us are biased to some degree, it's part...All of us are biased to some degree, it's part of being human. What is disturbing to me is signing some kind of binding agreement to the effect that your research can never come to any other conclusion than the one deemed appropriate by the institution employing you. I guess this is par for the course when a religion proclaims that "right belief" is a requirement for inclusion among the "elect." In most Christian circles orthodoxy is considered far more important than orthopraxy.Walternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-38569229619655393542010-09-04T03:28:54.153-07:002010-09-04T03:28:54.153-07:00The only justification I could see for such a back...The only justification I could see for such a backwards practice is if I was in financial straits and had to compromise my morals to eat and support my family.<br /><br />I would never work at a school that required all the employees and students to sign a statement averring that consciousness is a neuronal phenomenon. I have reached that conclusion with a great deal of concern with evidence, gone to school to study it explicitly, studied a bit of neuroscience. That's not the point, not the point at all.<br /><br />There is a lot of argument that would need to be inserted between between "I believe the document being signed" and "I would willingly work at such an institution, ceteris paribus."<br /><br />It is so obviously antithetical to the spirit of a liberal university, critical inquiry, search for truth, <i>especially</i> for an undergraduate institution, I would never consider sending my child to such a school (whether it be materialist or evangelical). I would actually consider it immoral to do so, and would be disappointed in myself as a parent if my child ended up <i>wanting</i> to go to such a school. Ceteris paribus, of course.Blue Devil Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12045468316613818510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10584495.post-39074862880367159052010-09-03T15:07:29.763-07:002010-09-03T15:07:29.763-07:00Bob Prokop writing:
I personally have a huge prob...Bob Prokop writing:<br /><br />I personally have a huge problem with the term "Biblical Innerancy", since I do not beleive there is one, agreed upon definition of what the term actually means. For myself, both of the following statements are true:<br />I believe in biblical innerancy.<br />I do not believe in biblical innerancy.<br /><br />It all depends on how you define the term. PLUS - there exists a vast nimbus of secondary ideas swirling about the term that muddy the waters beyond hope of clarification. You find yourself unwittingly buying into a host of peripheral issues you had no intention of siding with when the person you are speaking with has a different understanding of what is entailed by "inerrancy".<br /><br />My 30 years experience as a Russian linguist taught me to never underestimate the slipperiness of meaning in language, and to always appreciate the role of interpretation of words, phrases, figures of speech, etc., when dealing with any text, inspired or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com