22.45 Craig Smith - The Authority of Scripture (Part 2)

Indigenous Faith

In today's second part of a three part series Craig's titled, The Authority of Scripture, Craig delves into the fallacy of Universalism which denies Christ own words where He said, I am the way, the truth and the life, no one can come to the father except through me. He also introduces us to the process called Hermeneutics which is the process of interpreting the Scriptures which is so important to a right understanding of what God intended us as receivers to know and to take away from what the Scriptures are saying. While many other denominations and church groups have rejected a High view of Scripture, Craig contends that modern evangelicalism is one of the last to hold on to the Authority of Scripture. In this session he unpackages what both a high and low view of Scripture is, contrasting one from the other. He ends this session with a quote from Dr. A.W. Tozer on the dangers for those who hold to a high view of Scripture on what he calls mere Textualism, which he defines as an intellectual affirmation of biblical truth but without the enlightenment of God's Holy Spirit bringing the truth out of the text in a way God truly meant it to mean. This session, as you will see, is jam packed with a lot of things to consider and pray about for our own lives. All important truths for living out a biblically healthy Indigenous Faith.