The Battle Between Liberalism and Christianity

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This chapter delves into the fundamental difference in how Christians read the Bible, highlighting the Christianity and Liberalism controversy. It explores the catastrophic effects different methods of interpretation, known as hermeneutics, can have on a Christian's faith in Christ. The discussion also emphasizes the importance of the verbal plenary inspiration of the scriptures and the implications of believing in biblical inerrancy.

Inspiration means a lot of things to a lot of people. For some it’s the thrill of creative expression, or motivation to accomplish something great. But in a biblical theological context, it has a very specific, very important meaning: that God is the author of the Bible.

But for liberal theologians this doctrine—that the Bible is the reliable and sufficient source of God’s revelation to man—poses a problem. If we can trust the Bible, then we can trust what Jesus says about sin, about judgment, and about his being the only way to salvation. But if Jesus isn’t who he says he is in the Bible, as liberal and progressive Christians claim, how can we say anything about him at all?

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