David Fitch writes an interesting article on the inerrancy of scripture in our postmodern context. I’ll give you a quote or two to whet your appetite:
…inerrancy is an accommodation to another source of authority that inherently subordinates Scripture to its authority. This other source of authority is the modernist cultural norms of modern science and derivatives thereof. In so doing, the inerrancy strategy places the authority of Scripture beneath (under) the authority of modern science. In this way, inerrancy diminishes the authority of Scripture.
So, in essence, David is saying that the inerrancy debate of the past one hundred years places science in a position of authority over scripture and therefor scripture becomes subject to the authority of science.
He goes on to say that,
The inerrancy approach teaches us to see the Bible as a set of propositions to be analyzed for their correspondence one to one to an external reality… But the fact is, the Bible is an alive and real Story, a Story that is true, that is not a dead scientific textbook of facts. We must either redefine “inerrancy” or do something to remove Scripture from the deadness of modernist rationalities that “inerrancy” is a part of. Emphasis Mine
What do you think? Does the inerrancy of scripture debate actually diminish scriptures authority?
From The Great Giveaway.
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