Recovering Evangelicals #32 – Mailbag episode – the Bible
Jul 31, 2020
52:58
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Looking back at the comments and responses which have accumulated at this WordPress site, at Facebook, and sent to us by email, we thought it was time to respond to a few of them in more detail. We noticed a couple recurring themes, one of which related to the Bible itself:
- how to read/interpret it;
- why certain books are “in” and others not;
- why Paul in particular is given such authority;
- whether the theology of some is a petrified version of the snapshot we have from 1st century writings, and has not been allowed to grow as humans expanded their library of knowledge and experience over the two millennia since then (a theological version of arrested development?);
- the extent to which we can allow our Biblical interpretation to be influenced by other books (even modern ones), other disciplines (science), or other philosophies.
All great questions.
Here’s some of our thoughts on them.
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