An article contributed by John Bedson
“Everything is not what it seems” - Selena Gomez
Introduction
For twenty years as a Christadelphian I believed and taught the “Foundation” statement of the Birmingham Amended Statement of Faith (BASF):
“That the book currently known as the Bible, consisting of the Scriptures of Moses, the prophets, and the apostles, is the only source of knowledge concerning God and His purposes at present extant or available in the earth, and that the same were wholly given by inspiration of God in the writers, and are consequently without error in all parts of them, except such as may be due to errors of transcription or translation.”
However as time passed I came to realize that this “foundation” statement did not correctly and adequately define what the Bible is and how it works. This note offers an alternative way to understand how the Bible works.
