{"id":11130,"date":"2016-08-17T01:26:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T06:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-it-human-to-err\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T01:26:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T06:26:29","slug":"is-it-human-to-err","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-it-human-to-err\/","title":{"rendered":"IS IT HUMAN TO ERR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b>JOHN 1:1\u201318<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><i>The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><i>(John 1:14).<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>John 1:14 tells us that the second person of the Godhead became incarnated as a man and lived in human flesh. It also tells us that this God-man was filled with truth.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>This teaching was not acceptable to many people in the ancient world. As a result, there arose a heresy known as \u201cdocetism,\u201d which rejected the idea that God could become man. It would be beneath the dignity of God to take on human nature, the docetists said. The docetists argued that though Jesus \u201cseemed\u201d to have a physical body, in reality He did not.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>More sophisticated forms of docetism appeared as time went along, but in general any view that devalues the humanity of Christ is called docetic. Now, in the twentieth century a number of modernist theologians, most prominently Karl Barth, have argued that the classical Christian doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture is docetic. They say this view does not do justice to the humanity of Scripture.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In particular, Barth and others say that the orthodox view does not take into account the human propensity to err. \u201cTo err is human,\u201d they say. \u201cThus, if the Bible is both divine and human, it must contain both truth (the divine part) and error (the human part).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>It is one thing to admit that fallen man can err, and even that all fallen men do err. It is quite another thing to say that unless you make mistakes, you cannot be human. To say the latter is to deny the incarnation. Did Jesus err? Did Jesus sin? No. But was Jesus human? Certainly.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Jesus was truth incarnate. A human so filled with truth cannot err. The Scriptures, as the Word of Christ, are, like Him, both divinely inerrant and humanly inerrant. The question is not whether or not men \u201ccan\u201d err. The question, rather, is whether the writers of the Bible \u201cdid\u201d err. Beyond this is the question of whether the God of truth can \u201cinspire error\u201d!<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;   text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b>CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;   text-align:center;line-height:normal'>Numbers 18\u201320<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;   text-align:center;line-height:normal'>Mark 7<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:   normal'>If   we say God cannot produce an inerrant Bible, we must then conclude that all   Scripture is suspect. If so, perhaps its teaching is wrong with regard to the   deity of Christ, the completed atonement and other vital areas of belief.   List several other major doctrines which depend upon the trustworthiness of   the Bible.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:   normal'><i>For   further study: Psalm 119:95\u201396; Acts 1:15\u201317<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>wednesday<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'>february<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN 1:1\u201318 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth (John 1:14). John 1:14 tells us that the second person of the Godhead became incarnated as a man and lived in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-it-human-to-err\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IS IT HUMAN TO ERR?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}