The Credo Mag blog posted a great interview recently with Vern Poythress, author of Inerrancy and Worldview: Answering Modern Challenges To The Bible.

Poythress doesn’t attempt to address every specific “error” or “contradiction” in scripture, but he does – apparently, I haven’t read the book myself – discuss how different worldviews may have more to do with the conversation on biblical errancy.

Some interesting comments from the interview:

A large number of modern criticisms of the Bible and modern claims to find “errors” arise from injecting erroneous assumptions belonging to modern worldviews. People see errors because they misconstrue the Bible’s claims or find them implausible when measured against their standard assumptions. They do not humbly endeavor to understand the Bible on its own terms.

On “decontextualizing” meaning:

Historical criticism is notorious for finding alleged contradictions. What is too seldom noticed is that (1) historical criticism comes to the biblical text with a method that ignores God’s purpose to have each verse unfold its meaning in the light of guidance from the rest of the canon; (2) it thinks of positive efforts to understand disparate verses in the light of one another as “artificial” or “dogmatic”; (3) it looks for earlier sources as an explanation for alleged “contradictions,” and in the very process isolates verses from their present location in a whole book.

You can read the whole interview here.