tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9720805.post113025435897628394..comments2023-08-06T02:37:46.598-07:00Comments on History Repeats, Pendulums Swing, there has to be Another Option: Why Inerrancy Matters . . . or Doesn'tDavid Malouf --http://www.blogger.com/profile/13756209137101502564noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9720805.post-1130513488780446482005-10-28T08:31:00.000-07:002005-10-28T08:31:00.000-07:00What I am fiddeling around with is that I believe ...What I am fiddeling around with is that I believe the Scriptures are to be embraced and obeyed because they are Jesus' Scriptures not because they are perfect. However, I do believe their historicity is important, otherwise, we can make up God, Jesus, and Christianity in our own image. The funny thing is that holding to inerrancy is almost completely irrelevant in that regard because inerrantists make up God, Jesus, and Christianity in their own image all the time.<BR/><BR/>I think that the Scriptures need to be wrestled with together. The emergent buzzword "conversation," which will eventually start to get annoying and be changed because that is what we do, is a good description of how we need to read them. We need to be in conversation with our past and present brothers and sisters.<BR/><BR/>I think it is OK for there to be variety within the church. There was in the earliest church. Part of our task, and the purpose of the creeds, is to determine what our core convictions are (i.e. the stuff that make us Christians).Brett Bergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06003366143208563349noreply@blogger.com