Thanks for writing about Enoch and inspiration. I appreciate your distinctions and am finding that I must adjust how I view the Bible’s inspiration having been brought up Southern Baptist. I think it might be an idol of sorts. I would love it if you did a deep dive into Enoch. Thanks again. Yours is my favorite substack. I devour each post.
Thanks for this post Mike. It seems like a lot of these texts could help as interpretive frames for interpreting the scriptures that are a part of canon.
When you make the point… “that is simply the logical outworking of a commitment to plenary verbal inspiration, you need to engineer a backstory to make it work”
Is the back story you are referring to in this instance the comment made by Mr. Grudem that “1 Enoch was a custodian of prophetic truth”
If so, then it would seem that we create “categories” to believe the things we want to believe to quote lamin Sanneh
Thanks for writing about Enoch and inspiration. I appreciate your distinctions and am finding that I must adjust how I view the Bible’s inspiration having been brought up Southern Baptist. I think it might be an idol of sorts. I would love it if you did a deep dive into Enoch. Thanks again. Yours is my favorite substack. I devour each post.
Hi Brad, I have another post due out on 1 Enoch as Scripture (for Ethiopian churches), but a deep divine into 1 Enoch is out of my paygrade.
Thanks for this post Mike. It seems like a lot of these texts could help as interpretive frames for interpreting the scriptures that are a part of canon.
When you make the point… “that is simply the logical outworking of a commitment to plenary verbal inspiration, you need to engineer a backstory to make it work”
Is the back story you are referring to in this instance the comment made by Mr. Grudem that “1 Enoch was a custodian of prophetic truth”
If so, then it would seem that we create “categories” to believe the things we want to believe to quote lamin Sanneh
Excellent article
Thank you - Bird :-)