That isn’t anything new (or at least not on the scale of decades). I think it is newish since the reformation and proliferation of literacy / printed Bibles. Ever since then, there have been the intramural “food fights” mostly among Protestants about who is “in” and who is “out”. And much of that tribalism has come to feature the Bible, and how it’s treated, as the centerpiece Shibboleth. Ever since German higher criticism (to hear Mike Bird describe it), “inerrancy” became part of that contest too as each denomination rushes to demonstrate that it esteems and reverences the Bible even higher than everyone else. All the virtue signaling is nearly deafening and blinding by now - in more ways than one.
1 Like
The verse has been misrepresented so often that people misremember it as being about writings.
2 Peter 1:20-21
King James Version
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
The men SPOKE as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
There is not a statement in this passage that writers were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Episode 57 of Recovering Evangelicals Podcast has Dr. Peter Enns being interviewed about the development of the Tanakh.
It seems to be the first episode in this new series.
This topic was automatically closed 6 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.