If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

by Angela N. Parker

White supremacist authoritarianism by way of one-sided doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility distorts our understanding of the way a Christian community should act before God and one another. Such doctrines hinder the proper exercise of the Bible’s authority, and that is what this book fights against. Let the work begin.

Because the doctrines of inerrancy and infallibility are designed to protect the idea of Scripture being free from error and from failing to accomplish its predetermined purpose, they act as tools of control for the people who normally have the most power over deciding the “proper” readings of Scripture. These people tend to be a certain group: White male biblical scholars.

the concept of intersectionality is designed to help members of a community see their blind spots. If some communities, specifically evangelical communities that espouse inerrancy and infallibility, do not engage ways of interrogating their own blind spots, how can they imagine full and complete readings of the biblical text?