hannibal.lecture

Cheryl, As always your thoughts are cogent and penetrating. I wondered much the same when I began to wade through Grudem’s tome as research for my humanities paper. Any good paper which takes a position and argues for it must also posit a claim from the other side and show that it is untenable. In the case of Grudem et. al., they do this too. But when faced with a claim they cannot support, they will as you say “cartwheel”, resort to special pleading, appeal to inerrancy, and even level charges of heresy at the opposition. You have far more propriety than I with your comment of “hogwash”. Mine would have been a vernacular noun (rather vulgar) from the realm of bovine scatology.
Respectfully, H.