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Originally Posted by DMcFadden  The analogy Enns posits is not so new. More than 30 years ago James Daane used to tell us impressionable kids at Fuller that inerrancy was a docetist approach to the Bible, utilizing the analogy of Christology. He actually gloried in the "errors" in the Bible as literary analogs to the fact that Jesus sweat, breathed, defacated, etc. |
Dear Dennis, yes, when one hears the word "docetic" in a discussion about inerrancy it usually means something Barthian is about it rear its head!
What amazes me about Enns' position is that he claims to believe in inerrancy?! I can't quite figure that one out?
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Originally Posted by DMcFadden BTW, the map in the background of your avatar is off center. Don't you know that California is the center of the universe? |
Actually to tell you the truth all maps of the world are upside down, because Australia really is the top of the world ...
God bless brother.