Many things in the Bible can be independently verified. The Mediterranean did flood around Noah's time; the Jews were enslaved by Egypt; Jesus was probably a real person; lots of other examples. Because some parts of the Bible can be verified, does that mean that all of it must be true? Even the parts that are predicting the future, like Revelations?
More importantly, if this is good, sound logic, will it work for other things besides the Bible? For example, the Communist Manifesto says that some people are poor. Some people really are poor. Does that mean everything else in the book must be accurate? Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible probably contains something that is true, although I haven't read it lately. Does this make the whole thing true?
Is there some part of this logical equation that I am missing, or is declaring the whole Bible to be inerrant because some parts are true really as silly as it sounds?
2006-09-03
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