“There is an appearance of humility in the protestation that the truth is much greater than any one of us can grasp, but if this is used to invalidate all claims to discern the truth it is in fact an arrogant claim to a kind of knowledge which is superior to [all others]...We have to ask: 'What is the [absolute] vantage ground from which you claim to be able to relativize all the absolute claims these different scriptures make?” IfsKindDifferentFactsAbleUsedAsksGreaterHumilityTruth IsClaimsAbsolutesAppearanceScriptureSuperiorsArrogant Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic
“I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.” SexClaimsCreatorScriptureCustomsApplication Author:Lucretia Mott
“Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.” BelieveWholePracticeClaimsDenyScripture Book:Studies in the Sermon on the Mount Source: Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
“The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.” WayMatterClaimsErrorsScriptureTruthfulness Author:D. A. Carson
“Not all Scripture is propositional, some of it is asking questions, some of it's rhetorical, but where Scripture is stating something, asserting something, making a truth claim, uttering a proposition that is claiming to be true, it is the truth.” ClaimsAskingScriptureBeing TruePropositionsAsking QuestionsRhetorical Author:D. A. Carson
“Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about our moral condition. Both thought that religion would become more and not less powerful, emotionally and morally, if the claims of scriptures and religious teachings were taken symbolically rather than literally (whatever 'literally' might mean in the case of claims that are either nonsensical or outdated or historically unsupportable if taken as metaphysical or historical assertions).” IfsThinkingWayMeanMightReligiousPowerfulMoralCasesTakenTeachingConditionsEmotionalTraditionClaimsHistoricalScriptureAestheticMetaphysicalAssertionOutdatedNonsensicalEmotional Power Author:Allen W. Wood