non-sda
There are those in Neo-evangelicalism who claim the Word of God contains
discrepancies, contradictions, and even errors, while they at the same time
consider the Bible to be an "infallible rule of faith and practice." However, in
the first place, can there be true infallibility based upon errancy? In the second
place, who is to judge where the errancy stops, and how far the infallibility
extends? Finally, just who is to judge God's Word? The Bible is the judge of man;
all men.
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http://www.greatcontroversy.org/orientation/WATBible.html
What About the Bible?
Larry Kirkpatrick
The theory of inerrancy, which creates more problems than it solves and can force
labored harmonizations, is not compelling.
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Edwin Thiele, the respected Adventist chronologist, called "certain slight
imperfections due to the fallacies of human hands."
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http://www.ssd.org/Education/jae/articles/jae198144021715.doc
Inspiration/Revelation:
What It Is and How It Works
Part II: Infallibility: Does the True Prophet Ever Err?
By Roger W. Coon
The same kinds of minor errors found in Scripture also crop up here and there in
her writings
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http://homepages.wwc.edu/staff/thomal/writing/reviews/kinderegw.htm
A Kinder, Gentler Ellen White
A Review of Herbert Douglass, Messenger of the Lord (1998)
By Alden Thompson
"Perhaps most importantly, in spite of lingering skirmishes, he has stepped away
from inerrancy and infallibility. If the book can help break the stranglehold of
inerrancy in Adventism, it could be a great blessing."
He's talking about a book authorized by the Ellen G. White Estate and co-sponsored
by the General Conference Department of Education and the Board of Higher
Education.
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http://www.adventistperspective.com/sakae_kubo.shtml
Adventist Perspectives December 2000
A HISTORY OF ADVENTIST INTERPRETATION OF REVELATION AND INSPIRATION Sakae Kubo -
former president of Newbold College
Shows how inspiration must be only major thots because we KNOW how Ellen White
worked.
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http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/white/patrick/egw2.htm
Re-visioning the Role of Ellen White
for Seventh-day Adventists Beyond 2000
Arthur Patrick was Visiting Associate Professor of Church History and Pastoral
Ministry La Sierra University
Need to revise Ellen White's role.
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http://homepages.wwc.edu/staff/thomal/writing/reviews/theo_consultation_II.htm
Theological Consultation II by Alden Thompson
Spectrum 12, no. 2 (December 1981): 40-52.
As Wilson continued, he described the church as standing at the crossroads. "We
must go one way or the other. That is the reason for this meeting." He depicted
the church as "largely conservative," but as not "extreme in its conservatism."
"Adventism has always developed its own approach to Scripture. We have not adopted
inerrancy, though some of our group may hold that view."
"An Inspiration Alternative: Will It Unite or Divide the Church?"
"As one who finds an absolutist approach to Scripture impossible to defend..."
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http://biblicalresearch.gc.adventist.org/documents/Inspiration-Revelation.htm
Roger Coon Biblical Research Institute
In inspired writings, ancient and modern, there are inconsequential errors of
minor, insignificant detail. This is true of the Bible, as well as the writings of
Ellen White.
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http://www.atoday.com/magazine/archive/1994/janfeb1994/articles/Progressive.shtml
Madelynn Jones-Haldeman received her doctoral degree from Andrews University and
is now associate professor of New Testament in the School of Religion at La Sierra
University.
"one cannot simply read an ancient document as it stands"
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