Comments on: Inerrancy and Me https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:24:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-53652 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:24:29 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-53652 In reply to Angela Buckland.

Wow, thank you, Angela!

]]> By: Angela Buckland https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-53648 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:16:29 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-53648 What a wonderful, thoughtful post! Gracious, loving, and full of truth, it has the evidence of the Holy Spirit throughout. Blessings!

]]> By: Yewtree https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16773 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:47:39 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16773 Many Muslims believe that every word of the Qu'ran was dictated to Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel – so the Qu'ran is more inerrant than the Bible, according to them.

I think there's a distinction between something being divinely inspired, and being dictated word-for-word.

I could inspire you to write a poem, but I wouldn't have dictaed it to you – you would have put your own thoughts and reflections in it.

Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry is inspired by meditating on the Divine, but I am sure no-one would claim it was dictated by God.

Anyway, you have to pick and choose between the bits of scripture that promote love, and those that don't.

]]> By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16772 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:45:32 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16772 Radical Believer, That's funny. So in effect, we land up telling other Christians, “I am more inerrant than you are!”

]]> By: Radical Believer https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16771 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:02:06 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16771 Completely with you on Divine inspiration. Part of the trouble we get into when we speak of inerrancy is that we slip into meaning “My interpretation of Scripture is inerrrant,” which is clearly a load of tosh, unless I happen to be God tha Father, God the Son or God the Holy Spirit.

]]> By: Rhoda https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16770 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:40:21 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16770 Glad you posted this 🙂 I love Billy Graham's take on it. I didn't know you went to John Piper's church – I'm jealous!

]]> By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16769 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:35:04 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16769 Thanks Jo and Jennifer. Jo, I hope your meeting goes really well!

]]> By: Jo Royal https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16768 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:27:27 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16768 Hey Anita – great post!! How true that so many Christians say they believe the Bible to be inherent – and they can totally disagree with one another. I agree with your closing statement – about agreeing with Biblical inherrancy but acknowledging that as humans we are capable of making mistakes. I have a meeting with another church leader this afternoon to discuss how we can move forward when we both see a particular issue completely differently. We both believe the Bible to be absolutely true – and yet interpret it completely differently. Where to go from here?!! Put our 'correctness' in an open hand and ask God to reveal his truth and will in the situation I guess.

]]> By: jennifer in OR https://anitamathias.com/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16767 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:51:17 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/11/01/inerrancy-and-me/#comment-16767 Great post. Sorry you had a traumatic church experience. Been there. It sounds as if you're in a very good place right now. Blessings, Jen

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