A very good friend (Robert Jimenez) of mine shared this topic with me and I want to share it with you now.
I often find myself overcome with emotion when I worship God. It draws me into His presence in way that nothings else does. There is an emotional connection during worship, after all we are created emotional people.
How Evangelicals Became Over-committed to the Bible and What Can Be Done about It, was presented at the 2007 national ETS conference.
According to JP Moreland:
I am more convinced of inerrancy than at any time in my Christian life, but the charge of bibiolarty, or at least a near, if not a kissing cousin, is one I fear is hard to rebut. To be more specific, in the actual practices of the Evangelical community in North America, there is an over-commitment to Scripture in a way that is false, irrational, and harmful to the cause of Christ. And it has produced a mean-spiritedness among the over-committed that is a grotesque and often, ignorant distortion of discipleship unto the Lord Jesus.JP acknowledges that:
"One could never be too committed to loving, obeying and promoting Holy Scripture, However, such over-commitment is ubiquitous and harmful. The sense I have in mind is the idea that the Bible is the sole source of knowledge of God, morality, and a host of related important items."He goes on to say that there are:
"Three areas where Over-commitment to the Bible is Harming American Evangelicals.
Natural theology and moral law
The realm of spirit/souls
Divine guidance, prophetic revelation, words of knowledge and wisdom"
He also states regarding revelation:
The third and fianl area where over-commitment to the Bible is harming the church is in the rejection of guidance, revelation, and so forth from God through impressions, dreams, visions, prophetic words, words of knowledge and wisdom. If "revelation" is defined as the divine communications of information that was not or could not have been known at the time otherwise, then God is constantly giving revelation to his people. Not revelation of theology and ethics, not revelation for the universal church, and not revelation on an authoritative par with Scripture. But when the elders of the church return from a planning retreat to announce - correctly let us assume--that God has lead them to emphasize the family this year and not, say, evanelism, this is extrat-biblical revelation in the sense just mentioned. On the reasonable assumptions that God is real, He continues to speak to and guide his children in various ways, and that all this lies within the epistemic boundaries of human faculties, there is no good reason to reject this sort of thing out of hand. But those who are over-commited to Scripture do this all the time.The actual paper
what do yo guys think?