Well, I was not at the recent Evangelical Theological Society in California. But, as I have said elsewhere, this blog is sometimes about what I read.
Witness this article in Christianity Today. In it, Ted Olsen writes about one of the sessions led by J.P. Moreland. According to Olsen, Moreland stated that Evangelicals are guilty of an over commitment to the Bible. What you say?
Here are Moreland’s words in his session titled “How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What Can Be Done About It.”:
“In the actual practices of the Evangelical community in North America, there is an over-commitment to Scripture in a way that is false, irrational, and harmful to the cause of Christ,” he said. “And it has produced a mean-spiritedness among the over-committed that is a grotesque and often ignorant distortion of discipleship unto the Lord Jesus.”
The problem, he said, is “the idea that the Bible is the sole source of knowledge of God, morality, and a host of related important items. Accordingly, the Bible is taken to be the sole authority for faith and practice.”
How sad. Wish I knew how to do one of those sad faces here.
My next post will be a rebuttal of sorts to Moreland.
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