Summary:
As a college Bible professor, I am constantly confronted by
fundamentalist students who are convinced that only the Bible—the inerrant,
revealed Word of God—can be relied upon to offer us truth about the operation
of the cosmos. Any source of knowledge that contradicts that truth is only a
test of our faith. But the exact opposite is true. God’s creation itself is the
only inerrant, revealed Word of God, and our divinely endowed mind is a gift of
the divine bestowed on us as a source of communion—a vehicle that unites us
with the divine by allowing us to encounter the divine through the ongoing
revelation of God’s creation.
