Moderate Harmonized Approach

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Thesis Statement4

Background of Inerrancy of Scripture4

Historical importance of Inerrancy of Scripture5

The level of Inerrancy in the past scripts6

Roman Catholic teaching on Biblical inerrancy8

The concept of Hermeneutics in Inerrancy of Scripture11

View of the Old Testament writers14

The New Testament Agrees with the Old Testament14

The Theological Center of Scripture15

Conclusion17

References18

Moderate Harmonization Approach

Introduction

The most basic understanding of the Inerrancy of Scripture is that Scripture has no error or is without error. This means that the Bible is a record of things as they actually were, and a true account of those things about which it speaks. A more detailed definition is as follows: Inerrancy is the doctrine that the Bible teaches no error of any kind, whether doctrinal, ethical, historical, or scientific. All of the teachings are in perfect harmony with reality. Therefore, all the issues related to Inerrancy of Scripture: Modernized Harmonization Approach will be discussed in detail.

Thesis Statement

This topic considers that any move away from expository preaching or any approach to expository preaching that does not seek to preach Christ from all of the Scripture to be unfaithful to the preaching task and unhealthy for the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The preacher of God's Word should be committed to rigorous, biblical exegesis and verse-by-verse expository preaching, which, when rightly understood, will mean that every passage of Scripture is viewed in light of Jesus Christ and his kingdom. The preacher must recognize that every single word, verb, and phrase appears in the text according to the design of God and fits into the larger biblical narrative.

Background of Inerrancy of Scripture

If God is perfect, and if God was behind the writing of Scripture, then it is logical to believe that God made sure the Bible is a perfect record of what He wanted human authors to write. Also, as fallen human beings, people need a reliable and accurate book upon which to depend for sure and certain truth. If the Bible contained errors, people would have no such foundation on which to stand. God, knowing this need, would have provided it in the Bible. First, the doctrine of inerrancy allows for figures of speech, proper use of genre, and other literary conventions that were in use at the time the Bible was written. Second, the Bible can contain false statements, but only when the Bible is accurately recording a lie or falsehood spoken by Satan, a false prophet, or some other being. Third, inerrancy does not demand proper grammar, identical wording in parallel passages, the proper chronological ordering of events, exact quoting of Old Testament verses, or the use of modern scientific language. Finally, where there do seem to be errors in regard to historical or scientific facts, there may be ways in which these seeming contradictions can be resolved that science, archaeology, or reason have not yet discovered.

Historical importance of Inerrancy of Scripture

On the other side of the spectrum there are those who argue for preaching Christ from the whole Bible, an approach that has ...