THE BIBLE: Infallible, Inspired, Inerrant?
Is the Bible really the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and literally true Word of God?Bishop John Shelby Spong does not think so.
In his book Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism Bishop Spong makes an impassioned plea for Christians to rescue the Bible from mindless literalism and the fundamentalists.
This book should be required reading for every Christian who still believes the Bible is the inspired, infallible, inerrant, and literally true Word of God.
Bishop Spong believes "the time is short," and "we have no more than one generation left . . . before the dying embers of the values that were based on Bible and a biblical view of life will be cold." [Page 247]For the past several hundred years discerning Bible scholars have sounded the warning that all is not well with the Bible. Unfortunately, their warnings have fallen on persistently deaf ears, and for good reason: Christian religious leaders have a vested interest in ensuring that the Bible be not changed by one jot or one tittle.
It appears certain that religious leaders will go down with the ship rather than update a Bible that has been their bread and butter for so many centuries.
Do Christians have even one generation in which to rescue the Bible? Have religious leaders ignored the writing on the wall past the point of no return? Have they willingly and knowingly stood by while the Bible suffers from terminal illness? Time has run out. There are only a few seconds remaining on the clock before the bell of doom sounds.The die is cast. Even now the bell tolls the death knell for every system of organized religion on the planet. Organized world religions will perish on Osama's Day of Armageddon.
For the past 200,000 years of the Lucifer Rebellion, God and Jesus have stood aside as we mortals exercised our God-given freewill. We have sown the wind; God and Jesus will now permit us to reap the whirlwind. [Hosea 8:7]
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fellowship@urantiabook.orgAugust 3 2005