== I think that we need to be clear that we all have a presupposed theology.
We all have assumptions, which means nobody can be truly objective, but not everyone has "theological" assumptions. These are the most dangerous because it immediately sets the limits as to what a scripture can and cannot say.
== Indeed, a rejection of divine authorship of Scripture for example, is a presupposition many critical scholars bring to the text.
Please demonstrate one single example where a rejection of this assumption serves as a tragedy in exegesis.
== I think that this gross misrepresentation of a biblical/seminary education. While I can't speak for all seminaries and Bible colleges, I am a product of both. What is your experience? While I can't speak for all programs I can tell you that in my experience we often used the same books as non-Evangelical institutions. We were required to use the standard language tools such as BDB, HALOT, DCH, BAGD (now BDAG), TDNT, TDOT. LSJ and so forth. Furthermore, especially in the OT, we were required to interact with critical commentaries and special studies. We were required to parse verbs and memorize paradigms and vocabulary (to the chagrin of many students!) just like anyone else.
I'll let the words of Bart Ehrman make my point:
"No wonder that most of today's NT scholars, by their own admission, are not capable of rendering independent judgments concerning textual variants preserved in the tradition (I except my NT colleagues here, by the way; and they will for the most part agree, I think, with my opinion on this point). It strikes me as a pity that most doctoral candidates in New Testament are not trained even to use the apparatus of the standard Greek text, the Nestle-Aland 27th ed., that most divinity school students are not taught the fundamental problems of the textual tradition that they are expected to teach or preach, and that most of the laypersons in the churches to which the graduates of divinity school go are left completely unaware of the problems of the texts of the books that they themselves revere as Scripture." http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/vol05/Ehrman2000b.html
Then have at it. Please show me one example of an exegesis gone awry, because the scholar didn't assume inerrancy or divine providence.
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