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By: Randy Keyes

Randy Keyes — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:22:22 +0000

When the Holy Spirit was leading my wife and I (by means of His Word) out of the Baptist denomination, our first binding criteria in the search was, “They must believe the scriptures to be inerrant in the original manuscripts.” Period. Even though a right understanding of the sacraments had prompted the move, we almost didn’t consider Lutheranism because I thought it was either full of higher criticism (like ELCA) or just another form of the Fundamentalism in which we grew up (GARBC vs WELS)…and then an LCMS Pastor “happened” into the Christian bookstore where I was working…

God is good and His Word abides forever. (Long live the work of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy as well…)

By: Gregory DeVore

Gregory DeVore — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:01:27 +0000

Inerrancy is absolutely essential for Sola Scriptura to be maintained. ELCA types seem to be following the Anglicans and Weslyans in adding reason, experience and tradition to Scripture as authority. If Scripture is your ultimate authority how could you ever determine if it had errors? If you believe Scripture errs then you must have a greater authority or at least an equal authority in light of which you can judge Scripture to be in error. But if you have such an authority you no longer have Sola Scriptura. To accept error in Scripture would necessitate giving up on a historic Lutheran theological meathodology. It would put all of our theology up for grabs as a different epistomology and hermenutic could very well lead to radically different conclusion then those arrived at through a Sola Scriptura approach. I think the ELCA’s embrace of homosexuality and women’s ordination make very clear the kind of radical changes that would result from denying biblical inerrancy.

By: Pr. Mark Schroeder

Pr. Mark Schroeder — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:06:11 +0000

FWIW: In a newsletter article on the Bible, I entitled, “The Most Expensive Textbook in the World”, I wrote the following: “In a crossword puzzle with the theme, ‘Before and After Halloween’, all the clues were about that secular holiday and so all the answers had a word associated with Halloween. One clue was: “Behind the scenes Scriptures authors?” Answer: “Holy Ghost Writers”. I liked that! But it should be singular: Holy Ghost writer and inspirer: “All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3: 16—17). The Holy Ghost writer wrote with and through many faithful people to set down the story of Jesus Christ in the glory of God the Father for us and for our salvation.”

I have never read such an extensive array of quotes till this posting, Paul. Thank-you. And it seems that I was not far off base.

By: g

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:37:45 +0000

“Worm” in the Luther quotes threw me me until I went to Merriam-Webster:

2 a : a human being who is an object of contempt, loathing, or pity : wretch b : something that torments or devours from within

it is sense 2a that is meant (right?), but 2b makes for an interesting conceit, thinking of law, but that’s just random association, nothing else

By: jack kilcrease

jack kilcrease — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:49:07 +0000

This is something which I came to find strange as I made my switch from the ELCA to Missiouri. Namely, if as my professors in the ELCA were correct that proclamation of the Word gives absolute certainty of salvation, how is it that someone can claim that it’s not inerrant? In other words, I’m only saved because of certain historical events. To allow Scriptural history to be on the same level as all other history is to place it into the realm of probability. All history that we know, is in fact, merely probable. We have sources, we weigh evidence. But the Word and the Sacraments tells us that these things absolutely happened Pro me. So, if we believe that we are justified, Christ’s own history and therefore that of the whole Bible must be absolutely unquestionable. If not, then we are forced to say that Christ “probably” “died for our sins” and “probably rose for our justification.” Similarly, with the law, we “probably” “have all sinned” and “probably” “fallen short of the glory of God.”