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A New Massive Book on the Bible’s Authority

February 29, 2016 by Andy Naselli

enduringThis book officially releases today:

D. A. Carson, ed. The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016.

  • Google Books preview
  • Ivan Mesa interviews Don Carson about the book: “Inerrancy Is a Place to Live: Don Carson Talks About the New Book The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures”
  • Contents and authors
  • Fred Zaspel interviews Don Carson
  • Summary of Carson’s FAQs for each chapter in the book

It’s massive. And it was an honor to contribute 44 of its 1240 pages. (More on that below.)

Here is a nearly 18-minute interview with Carson about the book:

Carson explains in the preface (p. xvi), [Read more…] about A New Massive Book on the Bible’s Authority

Filed Under: Systematic Theology Tagged With: D. A. Carson, inerrancy, OT in the NT

Free PDF of Poythress, “Inerrancy and Worldview”

August 17, 2012 by Andy Naselli

Free PDF of this book:

Vern Sheridan Poythress. Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges to the Bible.  Wheaton: Crossway, 2012. 271 pp.

5 endorsements: Wayne Grudem, John Frame, Jack Collins, Michael Lawrence, Erik Thoennes

Related:

  1. triMark Ward recently upgraded the Frame-Poythress website. Nice logo for tri-perspectivalism!
  2. Coming in October: Vern Sheridan Poythress, Inerrancy and the Gospels: A God-Centered Approach to the Challenges of Harmonization (Wheaton: Crossway, 2012).
  3. I attempt to address inerrancy for a general audience and with much less detail and nuance in a book chapter:

“Scripture: How the Bible Is a Book Like No Other.” Pages 59–69 in Don’t Call It a Comeback: The Old Faith for a New Day. Edited by Kevin DeYoung. Wheaton: Crossway, 2011.

Filed Under: Systematic Theology Tagged With: inerrancy

Imminency and Inerrancy

September 28, 2007 by Andy Naselli

After praising J. Christiaan Beker, Buz Meyers brashly asserts,

Nevertheless, the apostle Paul and other members of the first generation were wrong about the timing of the Parousia. Christ did not return, and the End did not arrive as was expected. This embarrassing miscalculation on the part of the early Church may help to explain in part why the apocalyptic dimension of the NT has not been fully appreciated until relatively recently. Doctrines of biblical inspiration and infallibility may have encouraged overlooking or ignoring NT passages that speak about the Parousia’s arrival in the near future. Errors with regard to the timing of the Parousia, however, have allowed later interpreters to question the certainty of the Parousia’s arrival as well and then dismiss the Parousia altogether. In other words, because the Parousia did not occur when it was supposed to, it probably will never happen, so why consider the Parousia at all? The apostle Paul’s thinking, however, demonstrates that a change in the timing of the Parousia need not undermine the certainty of its coming. . . . [A]lthough Paul may have changed his mind about whether or not he would be alive at the Parousia, Paul never gives up hope in Christ’s future return.

– Charles D. Myers Jr., “The Persistence of Apocalyptic Thought in New Testament Theology,” in Biblical Theology: Problems and Perspectives: In Honor of J. Christiaan Beker (ed. Steven J. Kraftchick, Charles D. Myers Jr., and Ben C. Ollenburger; Nashville: Abingdon, 1995), pp. 212–13 (bold emphasis added).

So Jesus’ coming really isn’t imminent, nor is the Bible inerrant. But even though Paul was way off on the timing bit, we can take comfort that he really was right that Jesus will actually return someday. What a blessing.

Is it possible to hold both the imminency of Jesus’ second coming and biblical inerrancy? I believe it is. Responding to a bold assertion similar to Buz Myers’ above, John MacArthur writes,

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Filed Under: Systematic Theology Tagged With: eschatology, inerrancy

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