What Is The Bible

“Evangelical ‘Bibliolatry,’ A Scholar’s Intentions, And Media Sensationalism”

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After writing several articles about evangelicals, I want to pause for a bit to consider the role of the media and their use of sensational language about religious topics. Read more…

“Evangelical Theology and Barack Obama’s ‘Low View’ Of Scripture”

The Bible as Word of God—inerrant, infallible, and solely the work of God—remains the single most important distinction between evangelicals and other Christians.

In an interview with Stephen Mansfield, author of the new book, The Faith of Barack Obama, this is Mansfield’s answer to the question: Read more…

“The Inerrant, Infallible Bible — Where Is It?”

The sixty-six canonical books of the Bible as originally written were inspired of God, hence free from error. They constitute the only infallible guide in faith and practice. Article I of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary’s Statement Of Faith.

This first article of the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary “Statement Of Faith” crams several claims into these two sentences. Read more…

“Did God Write The Bible All Alone Or Did God Have Human Help?”

The role of human writers in the Bible is probably the most debated, contested, and complicated topic in the evangelical world. Although I am making a complicated topic too simplistic, the basic question is this: Did God write the Bible all alone or did God have human help? Read more…

What Is The Bible?

What is the Bible?  Is the Bible a book?  This is not a trick question. The Bible looks like a book. It has pages the way any other book has pages. It is bound between two covers. It is even called a book. And yet, the idea that the Bible is a book leads to all sorts of misunderstanding about what the Bible really is. Read more…