a moot point

I blogged earlier this week about moot. Though I don't fully subscribe to their hermenutic, I chose to borrow these statements from their scripture space for further examination:

There has been much argument in Church history about scripture texts, and to assist us having a level playing field the following is assumed:

1. Following Karl Barth, it is assumed that the Bible has limited inherency. Which means that it is the inspired Word of God but that it is written through Human Beings. Texts therefore do hold the word of God, but also human content. We therefore need to approach texts critically to work out what is of God and what is human or cultural.

2. The Bible as the Word of God is not God. The bible is writing that inspires us and reveals the character of God. Jesus is the word of God, so we do not treat the bible as inherent. Some forms of fundamentalist Christians are quite idolatrous in their treatment of the Bible.

3. When doing scriptural questing we will be mindful of the history of interpretation, and hold these in tension with the doctrines of the faith.

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