December 20, 2006

  • Hat tip: Jolly Blogger

    He found this at Crossroads:

    Philip Jenkins in his book, The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South, writes,

    "Two bishops were participating in a Bible study, one an African
    Anglican, the other a U. S. Episcopalian. As the hours went by, tempers
    frayed as the African expressed his confidence in the clear words of
    scripture, while the American stressed the need to interpret the Bible
    in the light of modern scholarship and contemporary mores. Eventually,
    the African bishop asked in exasperation,

    If you don't believe the scripture, why did you bring it to us in the first place?