“You’ve got Gavin Ortlund stepping up to explain, with that gentle and lowly familiar Ortlund tone, that inerrancy isn’t really a first-rank doctrine. Let’s slow down. Let’s be careful. Let’s not throw around labels. Let’s make room for “legitimate Christians” who think the Bible has errors. He even reaches back to Machen, of all people, as if to baptize the whole move in fundamentalist credibility.”
(The Dissenter) It started by nudging inerrancy down the ladder. Not completely off the ladder, nobody’s that reckless in polite company. But just a rung or two. “Important, yes…” Gavin says, “but let’s be careful. Let’s not overstate. Let’s not divide over vocabulary.” It sounds like humility….
It sounds reasonable. It sounds like the kind of thing a thoughtful, charitable Christian would say. But I’ve lived long enough in this space to know what happens next.
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CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as Gavin Ortlund.