Biblical Conversation(s)

This podcast examines the challenge of understanding biblical inspiration. How does it work? Three parts. 1) We examine II Sam 24 and I Chron 21 to see the shocking shift: God incites David in II Samuel and in Chronicles retelling of the same story he says Satan incited David to take the evil census. 2) We look at four (or really five) ways of understanding biblical inspiration. None of them satisfy me either because they are too weak or cannot explain the paradigm shifting seen in scripture. 3) We consider a three-legged stool model including a) progressive revelation, 2) didactic inspiration and 3) narrative authority. With these three factors in place, we can have an authoritative story that drives our lives and a scripture sufficiently human to bear the load of the conflicting opinions on display.