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« on: February 23, 2013, 04:25:18 PM »

is biblicism / biblical inerrancy a form of idolatry?
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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2013, 04:30:44 PM »

Yes, which is why I don't believe in it.  I worship God, not a hunk of paper wrapped in leather binding.
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« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2013, 04:32:40 PM »

Yes, which is why I don't believe in it.  I worship God, not a hunk of paper wrapped in leather binding.
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« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2013, 04:37:21 PM »

Tho to be clear, I don't ignore the book. But I do recognize it as a product of its time and that it must be understood in that context. That doesn't make it irrelevant today, but it does mean that we don't have to use shovels instead of modern sewage systems.
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« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2013, 05:38:17 PM »

It's a need to have all the answers now, and to not search for them or wait in anticipation of them.

God is more complex. God is a psychological projection that legitimates one's own impulses. God is often an aspect of one's self image, one's own ideology, and / or one's expectations about what is ideal. In less rigid and orthodox cases, God is an ideal to which most folks simply aspire, a liege lord of the mind who provides security and continuity.

If none of that is true, I would like to be tangibly introduced to God.
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« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2013, 05:50:14 PM »

If someone is religious then I would say that in taking the bible as essentially inerrant is idolatry as it involves rejecting the 'god inspired' world around you. Science is just as much as a 'revealed word' as the bible I would imagine and if it supplants biblical attempts at science then raising the bible above reality is idolatry I would think.
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« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2013, 06:23:13 PM »

Question for those more knowledgeable about this subject: isn't biblical inerrancy a relatively modern phenomenon in (Protestant) Christianity? Like, late 1800s/early 1900s? Or am I confusing it with American fundamentalism?
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« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2013, 07:20:22 PM »

Yes, which is why I don't believe in it.  I worship God, not a hunk of paper wrapped in leather binding.
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« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2013, 10:08:48 PM »

Question for those more knowledgeable about this subject: isn't biblical inerrancy a relatively modern phenomenon in (Protestant) Christianity? Like, late 1800s/early 1900s? Or am I confusing it with American fundamentalism?

perhaps because of the rise of the scientific method and positivism, thus the rise of the concept of 'falsifiability', thus the all-but falsification of the Genesis creation myth, Noah's Ark, etc.  prior to this the distinction between mythology and 'real history' did not exist as we conceive of it.
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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2013, 06:07:06 PM »

if not for a form of biblicism, what is the point of having a closed canon at all?
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« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2013, 12:21:02 PM »

No, since the Bible is the Word of God, which means it was given to us by Him.  The Bible itself isn't God, but if it's His revealed Word (which I believe it is), then it must be inerrant, and believing it as such is not idolatry.
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