Mega RR a: I He aC CHAPTER FIVE THE PROBLEM OF SENSUS PLENIOR Douglas J. MooDouglas J. Moo Douglas J. Moo is Associate Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Mlinois, He is a graduate of DePauw University (BA.), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div), and the University of St. Andrews (Ph.D). He has authored The Old Testament in the Gospel Passion Narratives and The Bpistle of James: An Introduction and Commentary (TNTC) and co-authored The Rapture: Pre-, Mid, or Post-Tribulational?CHAPTER FIVE THE PROBLEM OF SENSUS PLENIOR 1. INTRODUCTION No tactor i cted as an argument against the inerrancy of crptre more olen than the Ble Whatever conclusions about the nature of Seriptre hat ean be demenstsied by theolgla ded tn oron tha bass of the clans of Ble for half mst be tested tgaise the daa of the text. Andy taany eonciade, when these Plhonomeng are considered the den thatthe Be tae nal sat Utrme becomes ceayimpossble. Care objective stay of the text reveals numerous ever cf one Kind or anothet~-historiedinaccure Gis, dlrepancles betwen the seipiral cord and the Sings of tne celancas and above a. cottadtons between and within Dilla books Ineranti itis often allege, are gully either of seeping these phenom unr the rag affire doses nro aoings tarde {>the biblical tet by folsing on nile and someties fanaa Tamonitsexpanafons in ender to save tel theory This ers Cores om ere wn the nereaney camp a6 wel ax fom those thou Robert Ganaiy for instance numerous Gear thedlog Cally motvated contiions between Matthow on the one eed tod Mark and Lake on te other Heese fallow Evangelical for ing to tke seriously the fre of tus evdence and concades tha incmngy can be upheld only by adoping Hie exreme and’ most thle hypothes that atthe has oni alas ste ti theorem uninterested in roporting haste acts. Moe typcally the weight ofthe phenomena ld invalidate te notion Finer altogeer. ss Wilum Abraham put he doce of inerenap ovale enormous state when Homes inte comet wih inducing study ofthe tox, indeed the tai Isto feat ay rousonabi pon to want to bear’™ What nay be said in reply to such a claim? “nduction’—the joocaes by WOH Uisolog8 Soaps ue! cor Say a ty Biot rom to data eetily ha a logins pac Somat a dottine of Sciptur. But to inoge noe to oe su Pit Wwareld pointed out long ag, no cane madeby th bel ators for thet wring ales eetdones tom the tess capeble of being 179