At this point, someone may say: surely, if the Gospels are inspired scripture \u2026 they should be accurate in all ways? In a sense, yes. But beware. That argument is regularly used by people as an excuse for not<\/em> reading the gospels for all they\u2019re worth, but simply for reading them in a flat and na\u00efve way which fits with a modern Western worldview \u2026 rather than a truly Christian one. It is used, often, as an argument for treating the Gospels as a collection of proof-texts for a supposedly Christian worldview which in fact owes a great deal more to particular, and quite recent, traditions within the church, rather than to serious engagement with the God-breathed word itself. If we say that God inspired scripture, we are saying that God was involved in the rough-and-tumble, warts-and-all historical processes that led to us having these Gospels to read \u2013 not that they appeared from the sky one day, containing some sort of timeless truth divorced from history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tom Wright, The Original Jesus<\/em>, p. 131<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 3\/23\/2008 10:54:54 AM At this point, someone may say: surely, if the Gospels are inspired scripture \u2026 they should be accurate in all ways? In a sense, yes. But beware. That argument is regularly used<\/p>\n