Introduction  I want to be a brief as possible in this, and to do so requires that I be blunt: there are many believing Christians today, Christians who are children and beneficiaries of the Reformation that are utterly ignorant of its principles. Chief among these is the principle of Scripture Alone—often articulated as Sola Scriptura— who are ignorant of what it means in practice. James White, in his book Scripture Alone , in giving the reader a brief introduction to the history of the Reformation, introduces the principle thusly, …[The] formal principle of the Reformation was sola scriptura , for it was the assertion of biblical sufficiency over against tradition that allowed for the recovery of certain biblical doctrines: justification by grace through faith alone, the proper form and governance of the church, the individual priesthood of the believer, and much more.[1] Historically, we must recognize that the principle was grounded in establishing an authority for what ...

Introduction  I am firmly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture.  I also realize that’s a very bold statement to make, especially in a world where  uncertainty  is promoted with so much  certainty .  A genuine belief in Scriptural inerrancy is a fine line to walk. It is so fine that from  both  sides it can appear to be a denial of the (literal) truth of Scripture.  Whether it’s believing in a flood that wasn’t global but  functionally  worldwide or believing in a  literal  creation week that  didn’t  occur 6,000 years ago, I will be accused by  both  believers and unbelievers of being compromised and inconsistent.  However, I would argue that my  critics  are the ones who are compromised and inconsistent. Because when I say that I believe that Scripture is true, the corespondent element for the truth of it isn’t  dependent  on what can be proven scientifically or confirmed hi...

Introduction Those who deny the authority and reliability of Scripture often appeal to discrepancies between the works that comprise the volume that is colloquially referred to as the Bible. One of the most well known critics of Scripture is the apostate known as Bart Ehrman. What is interesting is that Ehrman has all of the bona fides of a believing scholar having begun at fundamentalist and conservative institutions like Moody Bible Institute, before moving on to Wheaton College, before attending Princeton Theological under the tutelage of the immanent conservative biblical scholar Bruce Metzger. In his apostasy, which he attaches to the problem of evil, he has spent a great deal of time digging into discrepancies and difficulties between the gospels, producing a number of popular-level books severly criticizing believing Christians. In his very popular 2009 book Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them), Bart Ehrman ...