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To: Mr. Douglas

“The bible is not the word of God. It is the word of men inspired by God and it CONTAINS the word of God.”

The Bible “contains the word of God” is the precise phraseology of the self-styled “moderate” Southern Baptists who rejected Biblical authority and denied the Bible was fully inerrant and inspired in it’s original autographs. The denomination fought over the Bible for decades before the moderates finally left the SBC to form the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship 25-26 years ago. The moderates were actually liberals on the road to neo-orthodoxy.

I have a relative who was a leader among those moderates, a seminary professor. I remember a sermon I heard him preach one time. He prefaced his Scripture-reading with “the Psalms contain the Word of God, listen and see if you can find it.” His belief was that only some portions of the Bible were inspired by God. He worked hard to explain away the rest of it. In the end he didn’t find enough of the Bible inspired to fool with it because he has abandoned all vestiges of his former faith.


11 posted on 02/08/2017 7:04:03 AM PST by .45 Long Colt
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To: .45 Long Colt

I prove my, “rather than it is the word of God, it contains the word of God” with Paul’s comments where he says, clearly that what he is saying is not from god but is him only. For the bible to be “The word of God rather than contains...” that verse would have to be removed.

The bible is God Breathed to men. I just leave it at that.

And it is good for all the things the OP mentions. Interestingly, many of those things are about how to live a good and productive life here on earth, as opposed to the salvation message. e.g. “spare the rod and spoil the child” as well as most of Proverbs.


12 posted on 02/08/2017 7:10:43 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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