The Disadvantages of Modernist Interpretation of Scripture

Vatican II document teaches that what's inspired are the author's assertions and not his assumptions. So when Peter is writing about the flood, he's assuming that it was a global flood, that isn't necessarily inspired. But his assertion or the symbolic value of the statement he's making is the inspired part. This just completely destroys exegetical methodology," says David Perry. "It undoes the cosmological scope of Christ redemption"