I’m responding here to Mr. Hilton’s post arguing for the fallibility of Scripture. It was, in my humble opinion, an excellent post. The arguments for the fallibility of the Bible are made often for emotional reasons, perhaps out of embarrassment that Christians still believe that some 3000-year-old document is historically accurate, or out of disgust for the schisms caused by contorted interpretations. Instead, Mr. Hilton argued from academic reasons. To make sure I understand his arguments, I will reproduce here a few of the salient conclusions from his post.
First, canonicity: the question revolves around what books you include in the Bible. View Full Post
Ella writes:
In Part I , I gave some basic strategies to find ideas for poetry. This article is obliquely about finding a form for ideas, though in essence, it is merely a list of a few forms with a variety of examples and random observations on each. (Descriptions of each form and definitions can be found in my glossary.)
Blank verse.
“There is an antitype which now saves us–baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
-1 Peter 3:21
What? Baptism saves us? Sign me up!
Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we should walk in newness of life.
