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Can I Trust The Bible? (2009)

by R.C. Sproul(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Nonfiction

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Reformation Trust Publishing

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Crucial Questions

review 1: You might think from the title and length of this little article that Sproul would be giving you some reasons to trust the Bible. Instead, this is a fairly exhaustive and incredibly dull exposition of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. If you're into that sort of thing, it's interesting to explore the reformed view of scripture, but the question "Can I Trust the Bible" is never answered from a non-Christian perspective. Nor is the reformed view exactly proved, instead the viewpoint is fleshed out and clarified.Overall, not a bad little book, just a misleading title.
review 2: This book is an expanded version of a set of statements put out by a group of evangelicals in the 80s, setting out the standard evangelical position on the inerrancy of Scripture... more.As far as explaining the doctrine, the book is well-written and is good for explaining definitions and terms that can cause a good deal of confusion.The lack of a star from me is that I'm still wrestling with the issue of canonisation. It's one thing to say that Scripture says it's inerrant - certainly the idea is there in the books of the Bible.The problem I have is that the Bible nowhere in and of itself defines which books make up the canon. So how do you know you've got all the true books? Can you work that out from Scripture alone? I know this is venturing into the old debate with Roman Catholics here, but I'm new to all this and would like to know more.I should also add that if you're not a Christian and you're looking into questions of the accuracy and reliability of the Bible, I don't think this is the book for you either. This is more dealing with inerrancy as a philosophical and theological concept rather than particular evidence of the truth of the Bible. less

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