Common Sense and Scripture

Posted under Inspiration, Scripture by FPeatross

Some of the answers I’ve heard in defense of Scripture’s inspiration have run rough-shod over common sense. And to think that my early polemic-bent life once used such biased arguments (actually, the correct word would be parroted) in Scripture’s defense (as if God’s words need me to defend them) shocks me. I can no longer leap-frog good common sense. If the answers we have parroted in the past were given as answers on a final exam we would find big red Xs all over our paper.

Let me give you just one example and then reflect on it for a few minutes. Don’t hurriedly jump to conclusions. Don’t resort to traditional answers. Instead, think independently…and with good common sense. Let’s attempt to stand outside the bible and then ask ourselves if the pat-answers we have given others through the years, in defense of the Scripture, makes any good sense.

Here we go…

How could Moses have written the Torah when he had been dead for three hundred years before the first verse of the Torah had been written? These five books reflect multiple strands of material that were put together over a period of approximately five hundred years. Deuteronomy even provides us with Moses’ death and burial. It would take a rather remarkable author to record in his writings that particular moment of his life–his death.

Does my thinking somehow destroy the integrity of the Scriptures? I don’t think so. Maybe it has more to do with how one understands inspiration.