The “Liberal” View Of The Bible

The Background:

There are two main views held by Christian’s concerning the words of God; one being the conservative and one being the liberal. Over the years (since 1940) the line that separates the two from one another has become blurred.

On one side you have the Neo-Orthodox (liberal) position which relies on Gods “Word” to reveal all truth and is the final authority on all matters of faith and practice for a Christian. This is absurd given the fact that the “Word” in the Bible is Jesus Christ (John 1:1, 14). There is no argument amongst Christian’s as to whether or not Jesus Christ is infallible and inerrant. This position is and has been widely adopted by “conservative” scholars and “conservative fundamental” preachers across the nation.

The idea is that Jesus Christ will reveal what is true and what is not through his “Word” which does not consist of words that make up the Bible but rather messages one takes from the Bible. The end product of this chain of “logic” is of course relativism.

This concept is what defines out current age; everything is relative, social constructs, nothing is black and white. Well, the Bible is very black and white; if you aren’t saved, your lost and if you aren’t going to heaven then you are surly going to hell. People don’t want to hear that of course, because people aren’t interested in the truth today, they are interested in numbing themselves out to reality.

The conservative view, well what used to be the conservative view, was that the Bible was the final authority on all matters in faith and practice in a Christian’s life. What was meant by “the Bible” was a King James Bible. Today there are over 300 new versions of the bible. Thats about one new translation every two months since 1901. There was a war between scholarship and the Body of Christ from 1940–1990 in which no one seems to talk about; it was the war over what God said (Gen. 3:1).

The conservative-fundamental view was that Scripture is “inherent and infallible.” By Scripture, it’s meant that it’s something you can hold and read, with words in it. This view has been taken over by the new-wave of “conservatives” such as James White and Apologia network — quoting the LXX as if it is “scripture.”

White claims that he is a Biblical conservative, all while holding to a liberal view of Scripture. He believes we almost have the Scriptures thus we don’t have them. What his view leads to is conflicting final authorities and doubt since he does not have a single final authority but instead a mass of Greek manuscripts which he chooses from. His job since the 90’s has been to instill doubt on the Christian community, and it is satanic at best. His favorite manuscripts are Aleph Sinaiticus and Vanticanus B. According to Scrivener and Burgon, two scholars in which White calls “true”, they believe that those are the two most depraved pieces of garbage to surface in Christendom.

What is White’s final authority? Well, it’s his own scholarship, of course. He does not have one, but condemns those who hold to the NeoOrthodox position.

In this series I will be dissecting an interview between James White, Jeff Durbin (White’s protégée), and Brandon Robertson. Robertson is a “gay theologian” who claims the NeoOrthodox position while White and Durbin hold to the supposed, “conservative” view. You will see that both views are essentially, and for all practical purposes, the same view and neither has a final authority pertaining to Scripture.