Inerrancy and Worldview

Inerrancy and Worldview
Author: Vern S. Poythress
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433523906

Though the Bible presents a personal and relational God, popular modern worldviews portray an impersonal divine force in a purely material world. Readers influenced by this competing worldview hold assumptions about fundamental issues—like the nature of humanity, evil, and the purpose of life—that present profound obstacles to understanding the Bible. In Inerrancy and Worldview, Dr. Vern Poythress offers the first worldview-based defense of scriptural inerrancy, showing how worldview differences create or aggravate most perceived difficulties with the Bible. His positive case for biblical inerrancy implicitly critiques the worldview of theologians like Enns, Sparks, Allert, and McGowan. Poythress, who has researched and published in a variety of fields— including science, linguistics, and sociology—deals skillfully with the challenges presented in each of these disciplines. By directly addressing key examples in each field, Poythress shows that many difficulties can be resolved simply by exposing the influence of modern materialism. Inerrancy and Worldview's positive response to current attempts to abandon or redefine inerrancy will enable Christians to respond well to modern challenges by employing a worldview that allows the Bible to speak on its own terms.

Verbal Inspiration of the Bible and Its Scientific Accuracy

Verbal Inspiration of the Bible and Its Scientific Accuracy
Author: John R. Rice
Publisher: Sword of the Lord Publishers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1943
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780873988759

Those who believe the Bible to be literally and infallibly the Word of God, reliable and exactly true in every detail, are in good company. They agree with the great saints of God throughout the ages. Those who have foolish theories about mistakes and inaccuracies in the Bible deny the very Word of God itself. Either the Bible is what it claims to be, the eternal and infallible and perfect Word of God, or it is an imposture. - p. 5.