Saturday, August 26, 2017

Biblical infallibility is masked by use of the Competitive Principle

Update: My understanding of the infallibility of the Bible has progressed since writing this 7 years ago. Please see my Translator's Preface to The Christ Family Bible.
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Is the Holy Bible infallible? Infallibility here means entirely consistent and correct in theological teaching. The Bible itself says this with other words (2 Timothy 3:16). Having worked on Biblical theology for several years, I witness with joy and praise for God Almighty that I have found no evidence that the Bible is not infallible. 


But I have also found much evidence of the operation of the Competitive Principle, both in how the Bible teaches and how readers treat the Bible. That is, there are two directions of competition: the writer's competitiveness and the reader's competitiveness. The result of this competition we can see today: many readers "discover" huge amounts of fake evidence that the Bible is not infallible. They wanted to find it and did; they approached their reading of the Bible competitively rather than cooperatively. Similarly, Almighty God is described in the Bible as wanting that very same outcome (Proverbs 1:7; Matthew 13:10-15; Luke 8:9-10).

What is the Competitive Principle? See the articles at this website about it.


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