SUGGESTION: Inspired Imperfection by Gregory Boyd

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Jack Hairston | Forum Activity | Posted: Sat, Feb 8 2020 3:06 PM

Inspired Imperfection by Greg Boyd

• Gleason Archer’s Encyclopedia of Biblical Difficulties tries to explain the booboos. Could there be a simpler explanation?
• How many preachers do you know that would survive a criticism of Bible inerrancy?
• What, exactly, does “God-breathed” (2 Timothy 3:16) mean? If we assume that a perfect God would create a perfect Bible, we set our kids up to abandon their faith in secular schools. Why would we do that?
• Can we wrestle with the weird parts of the Bible and still believe it came from God?
• How do the problem passages enhance the Bible’s authority? How should we respond to the Village Atheist?
• How would admitting that the Bible actually has errors give a whole new dimension to the concept of the love of God toward humans?

Here are the sermons that introduced the concept to the congregation that he pastors.

1 of 2:   https://whchurch.org/sermon/inspired-imperfection/

2 of 2:  https://whchurch.org/sermon/cruciform-inspiration/

A similar theme was explored by J. R. R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion where God’s enemy introduced dis-chords into God’s symphony, but God added new harmonies to make the whole symphony even more beautiful in unexpected ways. To see how this can happen, watch the beginning of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOlk35SK6po