Round the Sphere Again: Using Words
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 11:06PM 
Entirely Trustworthy
Kevin DeYoung quotes J. I Packer on the wisdom of using the word inerrancy to describe scripture.
What it says is that in formulating my theology I shall not consciously deny, disregard, or arbitrarily relativize anything that I find Bible writers teaching, nor cut the knot of any problem of Bible harmony, factual or theological, by assuming that the writers were not consistent with themselves or with each other. Instead, I shall labor to harmonize and integrate all that is taught (without remainder), to take is as from God (however little I may like it), and to seek actively to live by it (whatever change of my present beliefs and behavior-patterns it may require).
Not Just for Calvinists
Any adequate response to the problem of evil requires that God have two wills.
You need to have some sense in which God wants to evil to happen if God in any sense knowingly allows it…. But you better not say that God wants it to happen in every sense. God certainly disapproves of the evil, and wouldn’t desire it if it weren’t for whatever issue led God to allow the evil.
Read the whole post at Parableman.
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