No Blog of Significance: "Negative. You Are Not in My Chain of Command"

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No Blog of Significance: "Negative. You Are Not in My Chain of Command"

Part of a reflection on Frank Schaeffer's memoir, Crazy for God: "I find the doctrines of scripture's inerrancy and sufficiency tremendously liberating. Man always wants to give you one more hoop to jump through, one more command to follow, one more invented doctrine to believe. Man likes to make things up as he goes, to inflate his sense of self-importance and to acquire power. The one thing you cannot do, if you are tired of being told to believe or to do nonsense, is to diminish the authority of the Word of God. It is the only thing that keeps the nutcases off your back..."

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