Episode 491: American Democracy & American Inerrancy with Michael F. Bird

Jan 12, 2022

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You Go Away for a Cabin With Books

Science Continues Unabated

Can You Teach Anything to Drive?

The Goldfish - Forgot Everything in Eight Seconds?

How Are the Fish Going to Survive Without Us?

What's the Hottest Product This Year?

Amagam Gami Ham?

What Is an Insurrection?

What Do You Think We'd Be in a Year?

The Big Lies - It Was Donald Trump's Fault

Are We Going to Ride This Tiger Till They're Dead?

How to Stop Talking About the Election

What's Troubling Is the Gravity of What Happened a Year Ago

Christian Nationalism Is a Precondition for the Coup Attempt

Is She Right About That Assessment? I'm Actually Going to Say, Not Totally.

What's So Shocking About This Attack on Our Capital?

The Church Has Been Harmed by Confederacy Theories About Covet

The Big Lies Aren't What Creates the Explosion, Right?

The Most Salient Threat White Christian Nationalism Is to Democracy

Is America a Democracy?

Is It Too Easy to Vote?

Are You Really a Fan of Democracy?

What's Necessary?

What Do You Think of All This?

Do You Have a Difference of Opinion?

Can You Stop Your Eyes From Rolling When You're Talking to Them?

The New Testament in Its World

The Difference Between Inherency and Infallibility

Is the Book of Job True?

The Inherency of the Text

The Role of Women in Church Leadership

Is It the Only Thing You Have to Believe in the Bible?

The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy

01:00:27 • 2min

The Difference Between the Content of an Arency and the Way It Functions in an American Context

01:02:03 • 2min

01:03:52 • 2min

The Doctrine of Inherency

01:05:38 • 2min

The Global Church Engages the Authority of the Bible Differently?

01:07:28 • 2min

Is the Bible a Manual of Incantations?

01:09:56 • 2min

What's the Difference Between a Texas Authority and a Tex Interpretation?

01:11:45 • 2min

Is There a Difference Between Text and Interpretation?

01:13:29 • 2min

Is Your Interpretation of the New Testament Unorthodox?

01:15:44 • 2min

The Church's Traditional Way of Reading the Bible

01:17:27 • 2min

The Trinity and the Church Tradition

01:19:07 • 2min

Is There a Difference Between Christian and Conservative?

01:20:42 • 1min

Should You Have a R 15 Down?

01:22:12 • 2min

Is It a Christian Position?

01:24:07 • 4min

Last week, the country commemorated the one-year anniversary of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Phil, Skye, and Kaitlyn examine what’s changed, and what hasn’t, since the attack and what impact it’s had on both Christians and our culture. They also respond to Samuel Perry’s article about the way Christian Nationalism threatens democracy. Then, Skye talks to Australian theologian Michael Bird about the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. While Christians throughout the world affirm the Bible’s inerrancy, Bird says American Evangelicals uniquely see the doctrine as “the one ring to rule them all.” He documents many cases where inerrancy isn’t used to defend the Bible, but a particular interpretation of the Bible. Also this week—goldfish chauffeurs and the Japanese invent a finger-nibbling robot to “free all humanity.”

News Segment

0:00 - Intro 3:05 - Scientists teach goldfish how to drive https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/01/07/goldfish-drive/9131026002/

9:13 - Finger-nibbling robots https://www.ubergizmo.com/2022/01/yakai-engineering-amagami-ham-ham/

12:48 - Anniversary of January 6th Capitol attacks https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/opinion/jan-6-christian-nationalism.html https://religionnews.com/2022/01/05/violence-isnt-the-only-way-christian-nationalism-endangers-democracy/

Interview with Michael F. Bird

“Saving Inerrancy from the Americans?” article - https://michaelfbird.substack.com/p/saving-inerrancy-from-the-americans

“Seven Things I Wish People Knew About the Bible” book - https://amzn.to/33pYLV6

47:40 - Intro/Interview Start 50:44 - Inerrancy vs. infallibility 57:21 - American evangelicalism and inerrancy 1:07:46 - Global church and inerrancy 1:11:26 - Authorities of scripture, interpretation, and historic church doctrine 1:20:42 - Perspectives from the global church on other issues 1:27:21 - Interview End

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