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Biblical Knowing: A Scriptural Epistemology of Error is unavailable, but you can change that!

Through themes like the knowledge of good and evil, knowing God, and the emphasis of developing Israel into a “wise and discerning people,” Scripture clearly stresses human knowledge and the consequences of error. We, too, long for confidence in our understanding, the assurance that our most basic knowledge is not ultimately incorrect. Biblical Knowing assesses what Israel knew, but more...

to invite Saul into the apostolic circle without Barnabas’ testimony would have been far more than an error, it could have been a calamity. The errors that we are interested in exploring are not like these episodes from Acts. They are not stumblings on a learning curve or being wrong when someone is faithfully following the epistemological process (i.e., the disciples weighing the testimony of Barnabas regarding Saul). Rather, the errors that we need to explore in Scripture are those where persons
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