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3 solutions to the epistemological barrier
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Human Action, Skepticism or Postmodernism, Divine Action
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Human Action (solutions)
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1. Reson is able to penetrate the barrier. we can have knowledge to get to the other side.
Ex. Plato, Decarte, Kant |
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Skepticism or Postmodernism
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1. Reason is not able to penetrate the barrier (not smart enough)
Ex. Zeno, Nietzche, Rorty |
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Divine Action
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1. God alone is able to penetrate the barrier.
Ex. Augustine, MALEBRANCHE |
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Implications of epistemological barrier
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A. Limitations of our "own stream," yet hope because God grants knowledge.
B. Priority of divine revelation in God's two books: Scripture and Nature. |
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Oakes Proposed Explanation:
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We no longer believe the necessity and sufficiency of the Bible.
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Bible is necessary for
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Knowing God, Knowledge of the Gospel, maintaining spiritual life, knowing God's will.
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Bible is NOT necessary for
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knowing about God, His existence, certain attributes about God.
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Sufficiency for the Bible
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"wise for salvation.. competent, equipped for every good work.
2 Tim 3:15-17....... "which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." |
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Implications of sufficiency
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Implies that we have all the words of God that we need.
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It does not imply (sufficiency)
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that no other part of God's creation is useful or helpful.
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Applications of Sufficiency
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1 Subtract nothing from the Bible
2 Add nothing to the Bible. 3 Emphasize what Scripture emphasizes |
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Amy Grant Example
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Source of "revelation" with her marriage. said she felt that God told her it was ok to end her marriage.
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Biola Statement of Faith
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Believes the Bible is without mistake
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Our need for Divine revelation
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1. Infinite/ Finite gap
2. Creator/creature gap 3. Holy/Sinful gap 4. Noetic effects of sin. |
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We can know God TRULY but
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Not exhaustively
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2 primary forms of Divine revelation
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1. Special Revelation- in scripture
2. General- in His handiwork |
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General revelation
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Creation and Concience
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Special Revelation
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Primary Source: the Bible
effect of Knowledge of God's salvation, Jesus, mystery of the Gospel. |
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Inspiration
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not people, but TEXT.
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Inspired (definition)
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Produced by God, "God Breathed"
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Verbal
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The very language used
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Plenary
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All, the entirety
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Key Passages for Inspiration
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2 Tim 3:16-17 "All Scripture os breathed out by God"
& 2 Peter 1:19-20 "No prophesy was produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God by Holy Spirit" |
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Dual Authorship
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God and human
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Inspiration: slogan
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Bible is the word of God in the words of men
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Inspiration: Product
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The word of God, exactly as God wanted it to be, but retains the "personality" of it's authors
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Canon
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Rule or standard of measure and refers to the 66 books that make up the Bible
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Canon Keys
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1. Church recognized the inspiration of these books, it did not canonize (grant inspiration) them. EX. Inverted Jenny
Key 2: The Role of the Holy Spirit EX Inspiration, preservation ,recognition |
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Importance of Inerrancy
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If we don't accept all of it, we pick and choose and walk a slippery slope
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Infallible
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incapable of error (in spiritual matter)
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inerrant
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entirely true (in every matter)
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Limited inerrancy view (some of the Bible)
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100% infallible, but not 100% inerrant
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Autograph
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original
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Manuscript
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copies
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text
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the content
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Translation
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text into another language
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transmission
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copying, translating, recopying, and retranslating
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textual criticism
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science of determining original text
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Response to Bible reporting impossible (such as resurrection)
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Worldview issue, not Biblical.
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Response to not explicitly taught in scripture
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The word "inerrant" is not, but the idea is.
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response to not taught in history of the church (inerrancy)
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all of these famous scholars who taught including augustine, and quinas and luther
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Response to grammatical errors/stylistic concerns
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a poorly written sentence can still communicate truth.
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Mistakes of fact
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1. Eccl "sun rises and goes down" (incorrect teaching)
2. mustard seed is not actually smallest seed 3. There is "no God" psalm 4. Gospel disagreement about who was at the tomb. |
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response to mistakes of fact
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We need to look at these case by case
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Reasons to hold full inerrancy
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Jesus held it, Bible teaches it, church throughout history has taught it.
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If you buy the doctrine of inspiration
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God insirite the Bible, God does not er (omnicent and imnipotent), the Bible will have no errors.
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If you say the Bible will have no errors and you put it up to interpretation, dangers of this are
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What does this passage say?
Is this passage true? What is its significance, implications? |
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Biblioidolatry
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worshipping the Bible instead of God
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Thought Bible translations
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NLT, Message, Living Bible
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Word Bible translations
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NASB, HCSM, ESV, Amplified, New King James
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Thought and Word Bible translation
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NIV
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Main purpose of timeline
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We do not need the autographs, we have the text.
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Secondary purpose of timeline
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understand translations differ. and appreciate the difference of the Bible
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Does this mean that my English Translation is not inerrant?
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While technically inerrant, all good English translations are functionally inerrant.
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Clarity of the Bible
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One hand 2 Peter 3:15-16 "hard to understand, ignorant twist words"
Other hand, Understantable Psalm 19:17 "The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. |
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Take aways from clarity of the Bible
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Bible is clear enough for us to get the gospel, when we disagree or are confused the problem is with us.
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Definitition of Illumination
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"The work of the Holy Spirit by which he makes the Scripture both understandable and applicable to an individual's life" -Dr. Bruce Ware
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Role of the Holy Spirit in illumination
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1 aid in our understanding of the Bible (content)
2 aid in our acceptance of the Bible (application) |
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Roman Catholic Position on Authority
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Sola Scriptura (mary's assumption into heaven"
Ex cathedra give authority to Church, pope, Bible, Saints, etc. |
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Liberal Protestant Position
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Must be made on reasonable experience, hold pope, church, and more to authority but self as well.
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Evangelical position on Authority
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Scripture has ultimate authority.
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Sola Scriptura
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Scripture alone
Acts 17:10-11 Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, examined scriptures daily |
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Two big H's of today
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Hell and homosexuality
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Final Thoughts of this class
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If the Bible says it, we must listen.
and we need not take ourselves seriously BUT we MUST take the word of God seriously. |
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The God of the Bible is
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a personal god who speaks
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Decree of God=
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Causal words
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