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What do we do if we think the Bible is wrong?

August 19, 2022August 16, 2022 by Ian Paul

I first wrote this post some time ago, in 2014, but the graphic that provoked it is doing the rounds again—and I have thought further about my own response. So I am posting again a revised and expanded version of what I wrote then. There’s a quotation that did the rounds earlier in the year from … Continue Reading

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Five essentials of Biblical Interpretation 2: context

October 7, 2016October 6, 2016 by Ian Paul

I am here continuing the repost and revision of my series from three years ago on the essentials of interpretation. Having established that we cannot avoid the task of interpretation, my first ‘essential’ set out the reasons why we need to read any particular text in the Bible in the light of the whole—to read in the light … Continue Reading

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The reliable Bible: Craig Blomberg’s ‘Aha’ moment

October 28, 2014September 29, 2014 by Ian Paul

In response to my previous post on what we do when the Bible is ‘wrong’, and Peter Enn’s series of ‘aha’ moments, Craig Blomberg has offered an account of his own ‘aha’ moment when, from a liberal Lutheran upbringing, he came to realise that the Bible was more reliable than he has been led to … Continue Reading

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What do we do when the Bible is ‘wrong’?

September 29, 2014September 26, 2014 by Ian Paul

There’s a quotation that did the rounds earlier in the year from a Peter LaRuffa, who is one of the staff at Grace Fellowship Church which is in northern Kentucky: If, somewhere within the Bible, I were to find a passage that said 2+2=5, I would believe it, accept it as true and then do my … Continue Reading

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