"HOW SHALL WE THEN LIVE?" Francis Schaeffer

Thursday, March 23, 2006

God is Illiberal

The most contentious debates among Christians are arguments over biblical authority. While Christians who accept the full authority of Scripture--even the inerrancy and infallibility of the biblical text--may debate issues ranging from baptism and church government to eschatology and spiritual gifts, the issues of greatest debate in our time fall along the fault line of biblical authority.”   MORE HERE

Always, this is true.  Always this will be true.  It is within the nature of us all to want to “cut and paste.”  Sooner or later the Bible rubs you the wrong way and you want to protest what you perceive to be illiberal on its part.

Clearly God IS illiberal.

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