2. <\/strong>Harrison<\/strong> is an inerrantist. <\/strong>His followers: \u201cAuthority in the synod is based on scripture\u201d \u201cwe study the Scriptures to discover the propositional truth<\/strong> therein.\u201d \u201cWe call on the members of synod churches and the delegates to the convention to wake up and restore Biblical purity<\/strong> to our denomination.\u201d<\/p>\n They both hold to \u201cbiblical inerrancy,\u201d but it\u2019s not working to unite them. Read Schroeder\u2019s whole report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 3. Luther was<\/strong> for the \u201cpure Gospel\u201d<\/strong> (Gal 2: 5, 14), not Biblical inerrancy. For Luther \u201cthe correct touchstone for evaluating all books: to see whether they drive Christ home or not\u2026\u201d (LW<\/em> 35:396). What\u2019s authoritative is the word of the cross: Christ died for you and me (1 Cor 1:18-2:2). Thus, as Oswald Bayer writes:<\/p>\n The authority of Scripture is not formal but is highly material and is content driven . . . It is decisive for Luther\u2019s understanding of the Bible that he does not seek to establish its authority as Holy Scripture in advance as a formal<\/em> \u201cscriptural principle.\u201d Such a claim for authority, which is advocated by fundamentalists, is not possible because the conflict about the appropriate method of biblical interpretation is always at issue. This conflict can be resolved only in the material<\/em> sense, using the substance [material<\/em>] of the actual texts to settle the argument.[1]<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Read more Bayer here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Two camps of biblicists will contend at the LC-MS Convention in Houston, July 10-17. President Gerald Kieschnick (755 nominating votes) is the underdog to Rev. Matthew Harrison (1,332 votes). Both Kieschnick and Harrison hold to verbal inerrancy: 1. Kieschnick is an inerrantist. His 10-page response to the 2009 ELCA vote on gay sex: \u201cWe affirm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"dot_clear.gif\"){kind=spacer}
\n[1]<\/a>Oswald Bayer, Martin Luther\u2019s Theology. A Contemporary Interpretation<\/em>, (2003) 69, 74; italics in the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"