Jamin Hübner from RealApologetics.org joins me to discuss the doctrine of biblical inerrancy.
Music
- Loretta Lynn, God Makes No Mistakes, from the Van Lear Rose album, 2004
Promoted Resources
- Say Hello to my Little Friend, aka the Beretta Cast, with Glenn Peoples.
- Glenn also created my podcast’s theme music, so visit his Theme Music New Zealand for all your theme music needs.
- RealApologetics.org, with Jamin Hübner
- Subscribe to Jamin’s podcast, “The Provocative Microphone of the Christian Religion,” via RSS feed, also available in iTunes
- Jamin also periodically posts at the Alpha & Omega Ministries Blog
Recommended Reading
- “Calvin, Bavinck, and 21st Century Views of Inerrancy,” by Jamin Hübner
- Inspiration and Authority of the Bible, by Benjamin B. Warfield
- How We Got the Bible, by Neil R. Lightfoot
- The Origin of the Bible, by Philip W. Comfort
- The Infallible Word: A Symposium by the Members of the Faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary, edited by N. B. Stonehouse
- Hermeneutics, Authority, and Canon, edited by D. A. Carson
- A Biblical Case For Total Inerrancy: How Jesus Viewed the Old Testament, by Robert P. Lightner
- Inerrancy, by Norman L. Geisler
- Scripture and Truth, edited by D. A. Carson
- Inerrancy and the Church, edited by John D. Hannah
- The Erosion of Inerrancy in Evangelicalism: Responding to New Challenges to Biblical Authority, G. K. Beale
Chris, I’ve been pondering evangelicalism and inerrancy a lot lately, along with some catholic/orthodox views on the Bible, in an attempt to engage the other side.
a question that lately keeps coming up that i must answer as a protestant, is why we believe that God has or should have a mandate for giving us a so-called “Christian constitution” which we would call the Bible? Where did God ever express such a mandate?
The earliest Christians didn’t have any reasonable representation of the canon of scripture (apart from some circular letters and the apostles and first followers of the apostles to guide them with oral tradition – and possibly some writings which though helpful at the time, didn’t make it into the canon of scripture), which only came in the next few centuries in more or less the form we have it today.
any answers and sources will be greatly appreciated.