Fundamentalist Christians, do you believe the Bible to be exhaustive?

Question

Do you believe the Bible to be exhaustive...that everything that happened or could of happened in the past or the future is addressed in the Bible?

If it is not exhaustive, can it be infallible?

Can't God transcend our finite understanding of him?

Can't God transcend a book that, while inspired by God, (II Timothy 3:16), was written by humans?

Isn't God capable of many more things than we possibly give him credit for? Why must he be limited to our understanding?

Answer 1

While the Bible does not cover every possible response to every situation, I believe the principles of the Bible can be applied to every situation. For instance, all the principles which apply to heterosexual marriage also apply to two gay people in a committed relationship. The most important principle can and should be applied to every situation: Treat others as you want to be treated.

The Bible is inspired by God, but man made errors in writing God's message down. Such as these two contradictory verses on how Judas died:

"And he cast down the pieces of silver into the temple and departed, and went out and hanged himself." (Matt. 27:5)

"And falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all of his bowels gushed out." (Acts 1:18)

Infallible means free of errors. If man got something so simple wrong, what else has he gotten wrong?

I think the Holy Spirit continues to reveal God's will to those who listen just as the Spirit did to Peter in the Book of Acts in the case of eunichs, food and gentiles.

What I find hypocritical is that all those literalists who claim the Bible is infallible and the Word of God don't follow it all. If it's infallible, why don't they have to follow it, word-for-word? That's where they paint themselves into a corner and their stubborness makes the rest of us Christians look bad.

Answer 2

"Fundamentalist Christians, do you believe the Bible to be exhaustive?"
In terms of containing everything one needs to know to be saved, yes.

"that everything that happened or could of happened in the past or the future is addressed in the Bible?"
No. It doesn't address, for example, whether I should have slept when I got home from work this morning or whether it would be o.k. for me to wait until later (I'm doing the latter, by the way).

"If it is not exhaustive, can it be infallible?"
Sure. They don't have anything to do with one another. For example, the sentence "I am typing on a keyboard" is free from error, but is by no stretch of the imagination does it cover everything that I'm doing at the moment (much less everything that is happening in the world).

"Can't God transcend our finite understanding of him?"
Yes.

"Isn't God capable of many more things than we possibly give him credit for? Why must he be limited to our understanding?"
The infallibility of the bible doesn't cover whether God can do more than what the bible says He can do, but whether He can do anything less than what the says He can do. If every statement, including those about God, is true, then the bible is infallible.

Answer 3

info??? Evolution concept relies upon on faith ...and is not all technological information!! the thought that people and chimpanzees separated from a basic ancestor is a myth maintained totally as a consequence of blind devotion to the thought of evolution. The supposedly clinical statements issued in help of this myth encompass prejudiced interpretations in keeping with a number of similarities between the two, and an tremendously widely dispersed and inadequate fossil checklist. the full [so-called] hominid series elementary at present might somewhat conceal a billiard table, in spite of the indisputable fact that it has spawned a technological information because of the fact it somewhat is exceptional with the aid of 2 aspects which inflate its obvious relevance a ways previous its advantages. First, the fossils hint on the ancestry of a supremely self-significant animal—ourselves. Secondly, the series is so tantalizingly incomplete, and the specimens themselves often so fragmented and inconclusive, that greater may well be pronounced approximately what's lacking than approximately what's modern-day. apart from, it continues to be the case that regardless of the actuality that hominid [human’s so-called evolutionary ancestors] fossils are famously uncommon, the chimpanzee lineage has no fossil checklist by any skill. (Henry Gee, Palaeontology: return to the planet of the apes, Nature, 12 July 2001, 412, pp. 131-132) As we've considered, the scenario of human evolution that New Scientist tries to portray as a actuality isn't supported with the aid of any clinical info. A small kind of fossils are depicted because of the fact the meant forerunners of guy, regardless of the indisputable fact that those particularly belong to particular species and are a ways from being transitional varieties. For a start up, people and chimps are actually not somewhat the close cousins we concept. Crude previous comparisons of our DNA confirmed that our sequences have been between ninety 8.5% and ninety 9% same. it particularly is unquestionably the case while thinking single-letter transformations interior the DNA code, of which there are 35 million, including as much as 3 million.2% of the full series. yet there are different transformations, Eichler says. the two sequences are laid low with duplicated segments that are scattered in distinctive techniques in the two species, he comments in a separate diagnosis. those areas upload yet another 2.7% of difference to the tally. "So the a million.2% determine is woefully faulty," says Eichler [Emphasis extra].

Answer 4

Oh heck no. The Bible is a totally reliable, God-given guide to living. Its precepts and teachings can--and should--be applied to anything that happens, but if it were exhaustive in the sense you used, we wouldn't have full power of decision, would we? It would be rather like "proving" God's existence to atheists. That's my thinking, anyway.

Answer 5

Human nature has never changed and never will. Yes, human nature is addressed in the Bible and is exhaustive. And infallible.

Answer 6

The Bible does not need to address every permutation of possible events. It is exhaustive in the sense that everything you need to know to receive God's grace is included.

Answer 7

Of course it's not exhaustive. That doesn't mean it's not infallible and that it's not sufficient. God gave us exactly what we need to know to follow Him.

Answer 8

No--I use the WORD over and Over and OVER AGAIN!!

Answer 9

what do you believe