Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy 18

What do Christians mean when they say the Bible is inerrant? The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy tells us what leading inerrantist mean by inerrancy. I’ll be posting a section of this statement each week until I’ve posted the whole thing.

You can read previously posted sections of this statement in by clicking here. After a preface and a short statement, the Chicago Statement contains a section called Articles of Affirmation and Denial.

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Article XVI.

We affirm that the doctrine of inerrancy has been integral to the Church’s faith throughout its history.

We deny that inerrancy is a doctrine invented by scholastic Protestantism, or is a reactionary position postulated in response to negative higher criticism.

Sunday's Hymn

God Moves in a Mysterious Way

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.

Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never failing skill
He treasures up His bright designs
And works His sov’reign will.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy and shall break
In blessings on your head.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.

His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flow’r.

Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan His work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.

—William Cowper

Finally, a YouTube video of this hymn—one of my faves—using the tune that I know for it, and sung by three sweet little girls, too.

Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• I Sing the Mighty Power of God at The Happy Wonderer
• Lord’s Day 23, 2010 at The Thirsty Theologian
• My Faith Has a Resting Place at Whatever Is Good
• Thou Art the Way at Field Stone Cottage
• Though Troubles Assail Us at Hiraeth
• The Light Pours Down from Heaven at Conjubilant with Song
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon: A Word to Legalists at Pyromaniacs
• Update: Heart Aflame - June 6, 2010 at The Upward Call

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

Round the Sphere Again: The Puritans

On Family Life
What did the Puritans think about family life? Kim of The Upward Call writes, “When people think of Puritans in conjunction with marriage and family, it is often assumed that they had very harsh, utilitarian ideas about marriage and family.” But that’s not quite right.

On Biblical Counseling
“The Puritans had sophisticated diagnostic casebooks containing scores and even hundreds of different personal problems and spiritual conditions. … Puritans were true physicians of the soul. Their study of the Scripture and the heart led them to make fine distinctions between conditions and to classify many types and sub-types of problems that required different treatments.” —Puritan Resources for Biblical Counseling by Tim Keller. (CCEF) HT: Justin Taylor