Inspiration is the process used by God to communicate His message through the Bible.
Some traditional views of inspiration:
Humanistic Views of Inspiration - Scripture contains the noble insights of great people of faith.
Dictation Theory of Inspiration - Human writers were only instruments or stenographers through which God spoke his message
Dynamic View of Inspiration - God inspired great people of faith to write his message. He inspired through thought, rather than word for word. Writers wrote down God's message within the parameters of their own language and worldview.
Plenary Verbal View of Inspiration - The very words themselves are inspired.
And about innerrancy:
Propositional Inerrancy - also called "Blunt Inerrancy," "Strict Inerrancy," or "Absolute Inerrancy. Every word of the Bible is propositional truth, including those relating to science, history, etc.
Pietistic Inerrancy - also called "Fideistic," "Naive," or "Spontaneous" Inerrancy; or "Biblicism." A non-critical approach that assumes all statements in the Bible are true.
Nuanced Inerrancy - View of inerrancy depends on the genre of biblical literature. Some portions of Scripture were dictated verbatim, e.g., Ten Commandments. Epistles and historical portions have verbal inspiration. Material like Proverbs requires a more liberal understanding of exactness.
Critical Inerrancy - Holds that each word of Scripture is as God would have it. However, it allows for a number of qualifications, e.g., rounding off of numbers, cosmology, scientific references, inaccuracy in quotations, etc.
Functional Inerrancy - also called "Limited Inerrancy" or "Infallibility." The Bible is inerrant when it speaks of matters of faith and ethics, but not necessarily in matters of science or history. It speaks of the Bible in terms of truthfulness and faithfulness. The Bible may contain an error in history or science that was not available to the writer. However, these "errors" in no way effect a truthful teaching about faith or behavior.
No comments:
Post a Comment