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non-sda There are those in Neo-evangelicalism who claim the Word of God contains discrepancies, contradictions, and even errors, while they at the same time consider the Bible to be an "infallible rule of faith and practice." However, in the first place, can there be true infallibility based upon errancy? In the second place, who is to judge where the errancy stops, and how far the infallibility extends? Finally, just who is to judge God's Word? The Bible is the judge of man; all men. ---------------------------------------http://www.greatcontroversy.org/orientation/WATBible.html What About the Bible? Larry Kirkpatrick The theory of inerrancy, which creates more problems than it solves and can force labored harmonizations, is not compelling. -----------------------------------------Edwin Thiele, the respected Adventist chronologist, called "certain slight imperfections due to the fallacies of human hands." --------------------------------------------------http://www.ssd.org/Education/jae/articles/jae198144021715.doc Inspiration/Revelation: What It Is and How It Works Part II: Infallibility: Does the True Prophet Ever Err? By Roger W. Coon The same kinds of minor errors found in Scripture also crop up here and there in her writings ----------------------------------------------------http://homepages.wwc.edu/staff/thomal/writing/reviews/kinderegw.htm A Kinder, Gentler Ellen White A Review of Herbert Douglass, Messenger of the Lord (1998) By Alden Thompson "Perhaps most importantly, in spite of lingering skirmishes, he has stepped away from inerrancy and infallibility. If the book can help break the stranglehold of inerrancy in Adventism, it could be a great blessing." He's talking about a book authorized by the Ellen G. White Estate and co-sponsored by the General Conference Department of Education and the Board of Higher Education. ********************************************** http://www.adventistperspective.com/sakae_kubo.shtml Adventist Perspectives December 2000 A HISTORY OF ADVENTIST INTERPRETATION OF REVELATION AND INSPIRATION Sakae Kubo former president of Newbold College Shows how inspiration must be only major thots because we KNOW how Ellen White worked. -------------------------------------------http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/white/patrick/egw2.htm Re-visioning the Role of Ellen White for Seventh-day Adventists Beyond 2000 Arthur Patrick was Visiting Associate Professor of Church History and Pastoral Ministry La Sierra University Need to revise Ellen White's role. --------------------------------------------

http://homepages.wwc.edu/staff/thomal/writing/reviews/theo_consultation_II.htm Theological Consultation II by Alden Thompson Spectrum 12, no. 2 (December 1981): 40-52. As Wilson continued, he described the church as standing at the crossroads. "We must go one way or the other. That is the reason for this meeting." He depicted the church as "largely conservative," but as not "extreme in its conservatism." "Adventism has always developed its own approach to Scripture. We have not adopted inerrancy, though some of our group may hold that view." "An Inspiration Alternative: Will It Unite or Divide the Church?" "As one who finds an absolutist approach to Scripture impossible to defend..." ------------------------------------------http://biblicalresearch.gc.adventist.org/documents/Inspiration-Revelation.htm Roger Coon Biblical Research Institute In inspired writings, ancient and modern, there are inconsequential errors of minor, insignificant detail. This is true of the Bible, as well as the writings of Ellen White. ------------------------------------------http://www.atoday.com/magazine/archive/1994/janfeb1994/articles/Progressive.shtml Madelynn Jones-Haldeman received her doctoral degree from Andrews University and is now associate professor of New Testament in the School of Religion at La Sierra University. "one cannot simply read an ancient document as it stands" ---------------------------------------------