Heretical Perspectives on Scripture

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[VirtueOnline] 6 May 2008--The revisionists accept Anglican sources such as Scripture and creeds, but understand them from a heretical perspective. In a previous essay,(1) I analyzed the distorted view of the Trinity found in the St. Andrew's Draft, suggesting some articles that would both affirm orthodox Trinitarian doctrine and define and deny revisionist Trinitarian teaching. In this essay I will do the same for Scripture. Here is what the St. Andrew's Draft has to say about Scripture,(1.1.2) that, reliant on the Holy Spirit, it [each Church of the Anglican Communion] professes the faith which is uniquely revealed in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as containing all things necessary for salvation and as being the rule and ultimate standard of faith, and which is set forth in the catholic creeds, and to which the historic formularies of the Church of England bear significant witness, which faith the Church is called upon to proclaim afresh in each generation; ... (1.2.4) to ensure that biblical texts are handled faithfully, respectfully, comprehensively and coherently, primarily through the teaching and initiative of bishops and synods, and building on habits and disciplines of Bible study across the Church and on rigorous scholarship, believing that scriptural revelation continues to illuminate and transform individuals, cultures and societies....