title: Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis in Biblical Authority
author:  Robert M. Price 
description: Robert M. Price (Selma, NC), professor of scriptural studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary, is the editor (with Jeffery Jay Lowder) of The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave and the Journal of Higher Criticism. He is also the author of Top Secret: The Truth Behind Todays Pop Mysticisms; The Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind; The Reason-Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For? and many other works.
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  [[1]](../Text/S050.html#S050fn1_rtn) The second month in the Hebrew calendar
  began April 7.—Ed.
  
  
  
  
  
  [[2]](../Text/S050.html#S050fn2_rtn) A common expression for
  difference.—'What's the odds between us?'—Ed.
  
  
  
  
  
  [[3]](../Text/S050.html#S050fn3_rtn) The churches of Christ have suffered
  under bitter persecution, and been in a wilderness state, from the primitive
  times, through Popish days, and under the relentless cruelties suffered by the
  Covenanters and Nonconformists from the Church of England. As the gospel
  spreads, it humanizes and softens the hearts even of the rebellious. The dread
  fire no longer consumes the cedars of Lebanon. Still there remains the
  contemptuous sneer, the scorn, the malice of the soul, against Christ and his
  spiritual seed. Not many years since the two daughters of an evangelical
  clergyman, a D.D., came out, from strong and irresistible conviction, and
  united with one of the straitest sects of Dissenters—the Plymouth Brethren.
  The unhapp