Truthfully on Biblical Truth
8th October 2005
Further to my previous post regarding Times article about the release of a teaching document by the British Roman Catholic bishops, I found a couple of very enligthening posts by Richard of Connexions. While I did not know much about the original document (called The Gift of Scripture and which, incidentally, did not say it quite like the way the Times put it) that the article referred to, I did sense, as I intimated in my post, while reading the Times article that it somehow misrepresented the documents and had a bias bent to it. Richard’s second post highlighted the issues much clearer and includes some very good points about truth and the Bible.
People sometimes get irrationally passionate over debates about truth and the Bible. On the one hand there are those who teeter dangerously over the boundaries of “Biblioatry” (see my reference to this in my earlier post on the second commandment). On the other hand, there are those who get all worked up about those who insist that the Bible is all true. I like how Richard distinguishes the different nuances of truth in his post. I also like the way he explains Biblical truth by comparing it to art and his explication of the different literary genres of the Bible and the appropriate way to read them.
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