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2017 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference

2017 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference

March 2017

The Present Battle for the Bible: Inerrancy and Interpretation

Recent analysis has shown that the vast majority of “conservative” evangelical scholars claim to hold to inerrancy, but in the opinion of one of them, if they were held to the standard of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, perhaps 95% of them would fall short.

Understanding these issues and the facts that support the inerrancy of the Scripture are crucial for any Christian. How one understands the extent of the authority and veracity of the text impacts everything from ­interpretation to application.

At the 2017 Chafer Theological Seminary Pastors’ Conference (March 13–15, 2017) our two keynote speakers each had four-part series that addressed these issues.

Hear the discussions on these issues from our keynote speakers Dr. F. David Farnell, who addressed “Critical Issues in Inerrancy,” and Dr. H. Wayne House who enlightened us on “Problems and Challenges on Interpretation”.

Other speakers and topics included:

Bennett Greenspan: “Are Modern Jews Descended from the Biblical Israelites?”

Mark Musser: “Theological Romanticism, Higher Criticism & Post-Modern Fascism: A German Odyssey”

David Roseland: “Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and Inerrancy”

Andy Woods: “Apocalyptic Genre and Inerrancy”.

One session featured a report and update on Chafer Seminary.

 

DVDs of the conference can be ordered here ("regular" DVDs) or here (AVI DVD - with all conference materials - navigate to page 2)

To view all video Bible studies in the 2017 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference  series, click here (Vimeo) or here (YouTube).

 

To listen to this conference as an audio podcast, copy and paste the following URL into your podcast software.
www.deanbibleministries.org/podcasts/2017chaferconf.xml 

 

Supplemental materials

Charlie Clough: A Review of D. Brent Sandy, Plowshares and Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic.

Dave Farnell: A Critical Review of Michael R. Licona's Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? What We Can Learn from Ancient Biography

Dave Farnell: Dr. Farnell's Defending Inerrancy website

Dave Farnell: Vital Issues in the Inerrancy Debate

Dave Farnell: The Jesus Quest: The Danger from Within by Norm Geisler and Dave Farnell - FREE PDF download

 

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04 - Current Challenges to Orthodox Inerrancy: Dancing on the Edge - Part 1
Monday, March 13, 2017
by David Farnell
Series: 2017 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 4 mins 15 secs
For additional information on defending inerrancy, visit David Farnell's website at www.defendinginerrancy.com

The book The Jesus Quest:The Danger From Within by Norm Geisler and David Farnell is available FREE in the Transcript : notes link below.

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03 - Theological Romanticism, Higher Criticism & Post-Modern Fascism: A German Odyssey
Monday, March 13, 2017
by Mark Musser
Series: 2017 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 22 mins 28 secs
While it is true skepticism toward the Bible as an authentic revelation from God began in England with the meteoric rise of the scientific revolution during the 1600s and 1700s which gave birth to the Enlightenment and the secular religion of Deism that tried to outlaw God’s miraculous intervention into providence and history, it was the German response and reaction to the Age of Reason that led to an all-out assault against the historicity of the Scriptures. English Deism only went so far, but Germany took it to heart, and then even worse, assuming its scientific conclusions were relatively true concerning the biblical record, tried to fix it—but not by returning to the Protestant Reformation. Instead, German scholars of the 1700s and 1800s came up their own semi-secularized natural theology that rivalled and later replaced Deism with what is known today as Theological Liberalism ...
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02 - Problems and Challenges on Interpretation - Part 1
Monday, March 13, 2017
by Wayne House
Series: 2017 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 1 hr 20 mins 20 secs
Dr. Wayne House
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01 - Introduction: The Battle for the Bible
Sunday, March 12, 2017
by Robert Dean
Passage: 1 Timothy 3:16-17
Series: 2017 Chafer Theological Seminary Bible Conference
Duration: 46 mins 11 secs
Is the Bible the inspired Word of God or does it just contain the word of God? Listen to this lesson to hear an introduction to the 2017 Chafer Conference. Understand what a Biblicist is and what is meant by inerrancy and interpretation. Find out what is the history of the "battle for the Bible" and what dual authorship and inspiration means. If you’d like to understand why people think the way they do in politics, religion, and education today listen to the contents of the 2017 Chafer Conference.
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