{"id":1602,"date":"2010-02-23T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/is-the-bible-alone-an-oxymoron\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T08:17:00","slug":"is-the-bible-alone-an-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/is-the-bible-alone-an-oxymoron.html","title":{"rendered":"Is “The Bible Alone” an Oxymoron?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I liked the point Doug Chaplin made recently<\/a> (even though he called it \u201ca cheap shot\u201d):<\/p>\n

\u201cthe Bible alone\u201d doesn\u2019t tell us which books should be in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He has now followed up by asking whether \u201cthe Bible alone\u201d is an oxymoron<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It should be an interesting discussion.<\/p>\n

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I liked the point Doug Chaplin made recently (even though he called it \u201ca cheap shot\u201d): \u201cthe Bible alone\u201d doesn\u2019t tell us which books should be in it. He has now followed up by asking whether \u201cthe Bible alone\u201d is an oxymoron. 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