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Today's Trojan Horse: Professing Evangelicals who "Affirm" Inerrancy (have Redefined It)!

"You are the ones who are holding the inerrancy line like those 300 soldiers in battle of Thermopylae."  In a lecture presented on 1/12/17 at the Master's Seminary Dr. David Farnell asked the following follow up question: What is the impact of holding to (or denying) inerrancy in the Lord's Church (see James 3:1, 11-12)?

Farnell reminded this room full of pastors that the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) claims that they subscribe to Biblical inerrancy but many have redefined what this important term means.  In other words, not everyone who says the affirm the inerrant Test really does.  This is no insignificant thing.

The responsibility of a pastor is not to be thought of as a great "scholar" but to be faithful to the Word of God.  The Lordship of Jesus Christ must consistently reign over scholarship.  The evangelical use of historical-critical ideologies is like a pig with lipstick.  The grammatico-historical hermeneutic on the other hand lets the text say what it is meant to say. "The weight of any theologians underlying hermeneutical presuppositions is monumental (House)."  Many evangelicals have bought into "scientism" which forces them to deny the historical account of creation as detailed by prophet Moses in Genesis 1-2.  Others say that two or three guys besides Isaiah wrote the book.  Others deny the historicity of the first man (Adam); which greatly impacts the salvation theology of Romans 5.  Still others deny that Jonah spent three literal days in the belly of a literal great fish.  Others deny the historicity of the Resurrection of the saints post crucifixion (Matt. 27:45-54; eg. Michael Licona); and/or that the Magi actually visited Jesus (Matt. 2:1-12); and/or that King Herod actually killed babies in Bethlehem at the time of Jesus' birth; and/or that Paul actual wrote Ephesians, Colossians, and the Pastoral Epistles (Eph. 1:1; Col. 1:1; 1 Tim. 1:1; TItus 1:1; 2 Tim. 1:1).

Now here is where the rubber meets the road:  Most critical scholars today profess that they are  inerrantists.  Further most substitute or promote inerrancy with a perverted definition.  This is often done in effort to keep up with the theological Jones'.  The fear of man and an unhealthy desire to be respected by the academic elite is a recipe for theological compromise.

Dr. Farnell provide many examples of scholars who have been impacted by the Historical-Critical methodology (Karl Barth, etc):

Including but not limited to: Dan Wallace, "Whose Afraid of the Holy Spirit?  The uneasy conscience of a Non-Charismatic Evangelical," p. 8.

Baruch Spinoza (a Theological Political Treatise).