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

by Angela N. Parker

The inability to give full-throated voice to your own questions based on lived experience is what I characterize as “stifled breath.”

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.