Augustine’s View of Scripture

Incredible point from The Ooze about how we misinterpret Scripture by only looking at the literal meaning and ignoring the figurative:
There is much that modern Christians can learn from Augustine’s discovery and use of the figurative interpretation of the Bible. The historicity of the Bible was not a major concern for Augustine. Augustine did not [...]

Craig Allert on Scripture

here are some great points shared by Craig Allert via Scot McKnight:
Tied into our view of the Bible is our view of the Church. No matter how much we’d like to say “The Bible is my only creed” the facts are against such a view. Why? The Bible we believe in did not drop from [...]

Fundamentalism, Mystery and the Need for Humility

i wrote my last post in response to john macarthur’s book, truth war. i really wrote that more as a preface to this post.
i have been thinking about some posts from various people that i have read and the book macarthur wrote. they continually bother me for various reasons, but i [...]

Scot McKnight and the “Emerging” Atonement

i have read countless attacks against the “emergent church” and some even directly aimed at scot mcknight. and i myself often bought many of these critiques as i had not done much reading from scot (or other “emergent” leaders). i made a commitment, however, to read both sides. so i have been [...]

A Response to Fallible Canon, Infallible Scripture

in a post about a “fallible” canon of “infallible” texts, c. michael patton says some pretty interesting things, click hereto read his full post. there were two things that seemed to me to be contradictory in his post. one, he says, “I believe that the 66 books of the Protestant canon belong in [...]