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A must-read blog entry from Jimmy Akin…

[Evangelicals] treat it as if statements in Scripture were axioms of systematic theology that just need to be strung together in the right order to produce an overall systematic theology.

But that’s not what Scripture is. Not remotely. And if you try to handle the text in that manner you will inevitably force your own system onto the text of Scripture instead of deriving your system from Scripture.

Referring to an article that appeared in Christianity Today, Jimmy Akin serves up some insight on What’s Wrong With Evangelical Theology, and expands on the problems put forth in the article and new book by Ben Witherington. doctrine scripture catholic