I was just barely on the conservative side [52], which was surprising since I have always been in a "conservative" church. Hmm...perhaps I am more liberal than I thought!
Posted: February 27, 2008
Tim Moore (Guest)
Great fun & a good discussion starter! One quibble: I understand God's Word to be accurate in all that it affirms, an inerrantist position. But linguistic meaning and genre (e.g. historical vs. parable) impact our apprehension of the meaning of a passage. God's Word is eternally normative, but means what it was intended to connote to a listener in that culture. The exam seems to entangle our view of the authority of scripture with the process of semantic understanding.
Posted: February 29, 2008
Ian Goodson (Guest)
I'm with David H. It was interesting but poorly phrased and limited. I call myself conservative, but, on occasions, I felt that all options were acceptable particularly those questions about inspiration and interpretation. It's certainly not of any use in selecting candidates for service.
As an observation, the Sabbath is the only Commandment NOT repeated in the NT. How would a believing slave observe the Sabbath in the Roman Empire? It was not the issue chosen to die over.
