If you ask me, these folks are trying to have their cake and eat it too. If later conceptions of God in Scripture aren’t “more true,” “more worthy,” and “more mature” than earlier ones, in what sense do the later ones progress over the earlier ones? These Evangelical scholars want to acknowledge that God’s ancient people lacked clarity about God’s true character but were nevertheless perfectly clear—indeed, inerrant—when it came to identifying false beliefs about God.
