{"id":1105,"date":"2009-01-16T21:40:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/01\/16\/the-subtle-scholarly-unbelief\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T05:40:22","slug":"the-subtle-scholarly-unbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2009\/01\/16\/the-subtle-scholarly-unbelief\/","title":{"rendered":"the subtle scholarly unbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve given up on a commentary. I am one willing to read the works of quite a range of authors, but I get so fed up with the scholarly evangelicals and the subtle way they cast doubts on inspiration. Give me an honest liberal any day, they are worth far more than the &quot;perhaps&quot; and &quot;maybe-so&quot; crowd.<\/p>\n<p> <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The commentator in question is Tom Schreiner, and the commentary his fairly hefty tome on Romans. He is big on letting you know he has read all the opinions out there. Why do we need to wade through all that verbiage? Put it in the footnotes if you must. And then all the tentative, hesitant conclusions. Give me a man&#8217;s commentator, like Charles Hodge, or William R. Newell. There are a few other excellent ones out there also, like Herman Hoyt&#8217;s little jewel on Romans.<\/p>\n<p>But the thing that made me put Schreiner on the shelf was a footnote on Rm 3.4, where Paul quotes Ps 51. The footnote says something to this effect: &quot;It doesn&#8217;t matter whether David was actually the author of Ps 51 or not.&quot; What??? Do we need this???<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve put him on the shelf. I don&#8217;t care if I never open him again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"don_sig2\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/don-sig29.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve given up on a commentary. I am one willing to read the works of quite a range of authors, but I get so fed up with the scholarly evangelicals and the subtle way they cast doubts on inspiration. Give me an honest liberal any day, they are worth far more than the &quot;perhaps&quot; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[77,73],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-hP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}