{"id":151,"date":"2009-05-21T22:53:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T22:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/05\/double-standard.html"},"modified":"2009-05-21T22:53:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T22:53:54","slug":"double-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mormoninquiry\/2009\/05\/double-standard.html","title":{"rendered":"Double standard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Things of My Soul blog, a Mormon shares his frustration with the Evangelical view of the Bible as applied negatively to Mormons but not to others in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thingsofmysoul.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/religious-double-standards-when.html\">Religious Double Standards When Dismissing Mormonism<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Someone called me un-Christian for not accepting the Bible (as canonized in the 4th Century AD) as inerrant. They said that the Bible is the word of God &#8211; straight from God&#8217;s mouth to the prophets&#8217; ears to the page. Then, in the same breath, they accepted as Christian someone who said that an entire book in the Bible is not inspired of God. (Martin Luther about the Epistle of James) They quoted Revelation (completely out of context in my opinion) to castigate us for adding to the canon, but they didn&#8217;t castigate Luther for taking away from the canon. That&#8217;s a double standard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other posts on this topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/summatheologica.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/12\/robinson-and-the-chicago-statement\/\">Stephen Robinson and the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy<\/a> at Summa Theologica.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juvenileinstructor.org\/bart-ehrman-biblical-criticism-and-mormons\/\">Bart Ehrman, Biblical Criticism, and Mormons<\/a> at Juvenile Instructor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Things of My Soul blog, a Mormon shares his frustration with the Evangelical view of the Bible as applied negatively to Mormons but not to others in &#8220;Religious Double Standards When Dismissing Mormonism&#8220;: Someone called me un-Christian for not accepting the Bible (as canonized in the 4th Century AD) as inerrant. 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