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"Wasn't this the problem Jesus kept having with the scribes & Pharisees? He kept telling them it was going on right now, in front of them -- and they wanted to know what Authority he was going by...
We can always get things wrong... but God…"
William F Rushby commented on Doug Bennett's blog post 'More on Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism and the Bible'"The word is cessationism, NOT cessationalism!"
William F Rushby commented on Doug Bennett's blog post 'More on Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism and the Bible'"Challie's view sounds like cessationism. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessationism
Cessationalism has been around for a long time. It holds that all other communication from God and the miraculous gifts…"
Doug Bennett commented on Doug Bennett's blog post 'More on Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism and the Bible'"Very like my experience, James. Thanks."
James C Schultz commented on Doug Bennett's blog post 'More on Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism and the Bible'"I have talks with God all the time about the possibility I am being deceived by what I think He is showing me. But that deception can come from an incorrect interpretation of the bible as much as what I sense in my soul He is revealing to…"
Doug Bennett posted a blog postMore on Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism and the Bible
May 16, 2013Worth reading this week is a blog post by Rachel Held Evans entitled Is God’s Presence Limited to the Scripture?The question is on her mind (her answer is no) because of a blog post by Tim Challies, a prominent evangelical, on The Boundaries of Evangelicalism. Challies’s opening…See More
Doug Bennett posted a blog postThe Bible As Unfinished Work
May 13, 2103For a very long while the Bible was clearly an unfinished work. I believe it is still. The books in the Hebrew Testament were written over several centuries, probably most before 500 BCE. The set of books we have today were in final form by about 100 BCE – that is a few decades before Jesus’s birth. The books in the New Testament were mostly written in the century after the…See More
Tania Aveling commented on Doug Bennett's blog post 'The Bible As Inspired Work'"This was a really enjoyable post for me to read. I was raised Seventh-Day Adventist (like the Nazarene church, SDAs embrace the Bible as the infallible, inspired Word of God, and as a little girl, I was taught to place it at the very top if I…"
James C Schultz commented on Doug Bennett's blog post 'The Bible As Inspired Work'"So are you discussing the bible or our understanding of the bible? In my mind they are two different things."
Doug Bennett commented on Doug Bennett's blog post 'The Bible As Inspired Work'"It is not the Roman Catholic Church (for the most part) that insists on the doctrines of inerrancy or plenary inspiration. It is rather certain strains of evangelical Christian denominations that argue this. For example here is Article 4 of the…"
James C Schultz commented on Doug Bennett's blog post 'The Bible As Inspired Work'"While I might and I say might argue that the bible is indeed perfect, I don't think anyone (outside the RC church) can argue that anyone's understanding of the bible is perfect or inerrant. I think the word perfect should…"
Doug Bennett posted a blog postThe Bible As Inspired Work
This is the third in a series of posts about the Bible in which I want to say how and why I find the Bible essential for my spiritual life. (The first is here. The second is here.) I hope these musings may be useful to others. The reflections in these posts about the Bible draw on material I presented at the Midyear…See More
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More on Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism and the Bible
Posted on 5th mo. 16, 2013 at 9:30am 5 Comments 0 Likes
May 16, 2013
Worth reading this week is a blog post by Rachel Held Evans entitled Is God’s Presence Limited to the Scripture?
The question is on her mind (her answer is no) because of a blog post by Tim Challies, a prominent evangelical, on The Boundaries of Evangelicalism.…
Continue The Bible As Unfinished Work
Posted on 5th mo. 13, 2013 at 8:40am 0 Comments 0 Likes
May 13, 2103
For a very long while the Bible was clearly an unfinished work. I believe it is still.
The books in the Hebrew Testament were written over several centuries, probably most before 500 BCE. The set of books we have today were in final form by about 100 BCE – that is a few decades before Jesus’s birth. The books in the New Testament were mostly written in…
The Bible As Inspired Work
Posted on 5th mo. 6, 2013 at 12:00pm 5 Comments 2 Likes
This is the third in a series of posts about the Bible in which I want to say how and why I find the Bible essential for my spiritual life. (The first is here. The second is here.) I hope these musings may be useful to others. The reflections in these posts about the Bible draw on material I presented at the…
Continue “Amo” or “Credo” by L. Willard Reynolds (1968)
Posted on 5th mo. 3, 2013 at 9:00am 4 Comments 0 Likes
May 3, 2013
I have been rummaging again in the Friends Journal archive. Access to back issues is a terrific benefit of a subscription. In the June 15, 1968 issue (page 296) I found this gem, “‘Amo’ or ‘Credo’?” by L. Willard Reynolds, then a pastor in Nebraska Yearly Meeting (FUM). His piece–could have been written today–follows.
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Robert Frost, in an…
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- At 1:01pm on 7th mo. 5, 2012,
Mackenzie said… I read your "plea to read the Bible together" in Friends Journal the other day. It was very well-written. Thank you.
I remember one time having someone tell me that "oh no, I know what the Bible says, Sodom & Gomorrah!" to which I paraphrased a line of Ezekiel back to him: the sin of Sodom was that of pride, fullness of bread, and not holding up the poor and needy. He asked if Ezekiel was in the Bible.
- At 11:28am on 4th mo. 6, 2011,
Paula Deming said… Welcome!
Thy fFriend Paula (mother of Earlham '04 grad Elaine Banvard)
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