{"id":5735,"date":"2015-09-05T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2015-09-08T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:49:22","slug":"dallas-seminary-graduates-dont-preach-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5735","title":{"rendered":"DALLAS SEMINARY GRADUATES DON&#8217;T PREACH THE BIBLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First, let me say that I know a number of Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) graduates who are careful students of the Bible. \u00a0Among the faithful, I have recently been blessed to know Jon Davies, the teaching pastor at Brenham Bible Church. \u00a0Jon handles the Word with reverence and diligently applies himself in the study. \u00a0Last, and certainly least, is the fact that I myself am a graduate of DTS. \u00a0Though I am \u201cagnostic\u201d on certain, secondary doctrines other DTS graduates hold, I remain grateful to God for the indelible impact of both professors and students.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Back to the subject line of this post\u2026That is what I overheard from a theologian who some would say holds to a less than \u201cconservative\u201d position of the Bible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was in the bookstore of the seminary where this particular theologian teaches and could not help but eavesdrop on the conversation.\u00a0 The theologian said to her friend, \u201cI was just on vacation and so we went to the church my in-laws attend.\u00a0 A Dallas Seminary guy was preaching.\u00a0 It is amazing how poorly he handled the Scriptures even though he believes in the inerrancy of the Bible.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe in inerrancy, but I treat the text of the Bible much more carefully than him.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Holding to inerrancy is no safeguard against handling the Word of God in a sloppy manner.\u00a0 Holding to inerrancy also won\u2019t keep you out of bed with another man\u2019s wife as the evangelical landscape makes painfully clear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you hold to inerrancy?\u00a0 For a few brave souls out there, you may want to declare that you don\u2019t even know what it is, but you have heard it is important!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Repost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, let me say that I know a number of Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS) graduates who are careful students of the Bible. \u00a0Among the faithful, I have recently been blessed to know Jon Davies, the teaching pastor at Brenham Bible Church. \u00a0Jon handles the Word with reverence and diligently applies himself in the study. \u00a0Last, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-pastor","category-preaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}