Another Gospel? by Alisa Childers
Week 3: Chapter 3 — The Bible: Inspired, Inerrant, and Under Fire
Read Chapter 3 of Another Gospel? by Alisa Childers. Key passages: 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21.
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Everything else in this book ultimately depends on this chapter — because how you think about the Bible determines how you handle every other question. Approach these questions with the awareness that your view of Scripture is not just an academic position but a life-shaping commitment.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Childers introduces the concept of biblical inerrancy — the view that Scripture, in its original manuscripts, is without error in everything it affirms. How does she define and defend this view? What do you make of it?
2.She describes the progressive approach to Scripture as treating the Bible as a 'human book' — a record of people's evolving understanding of God, rather than God's authoritative self-disclosure. What are the practical consequences of adopting that view? How would it change the way you read the Bible?
3.Childers discusses the concept of the 'Wesleyan Quadrilateral' — Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience — and how progressive Christianity tends to elevate experience and reason above Scripture. Do you think experience and reason have a legitimate role in theology? What should that role be, and what keeps it from becoming a way to override Scripture?
a.Can you think of a time when your personal experience seemed to contradict something Scripture teaches? How did you navigate that tension?
b.How should the community of faith help individuals handle that tension?
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