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Conversation with a Long, Lost, 44 Year-Old Friend

Blog post by Rev. Mike Sears, Gastonia, NC

How can an issue, which isn’t really even insinuated in 10A, cause exam-passing pastors and lifelong elders to totally abandon socio-historical approaches and critical thinking when it comes to understanding the Bible?

Our 44 year-old friend, The Confession of 1967, called out: The one sufficient revelation of God is Jesus Christ, the Word of God incarnate, to whom the Holy Spirit bears unique witness through the Holy Scriptures, which are received and obeyed as the word of God written …The Scriptures, given under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, are nevertheless the words of men, conditioned by the language, thought forms, and literary fashions of the places and times at which they were written … The church, therefore, has an obligation to approach the Scriptures with literary and historical understanding…   click here to read full article.  

 

 

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