It seems the number fluctuates from time to time... I wonder how many people on tonight agree with the doctrine...
2007-09-12 19:26:28 · 11 answers · asked by yelxeH 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
*chuckle* Yes, lot of people... but when you confront them with actual inerrancies, they scramble to explain why it REALLY means something else.
OOOooooh, it's inerrant until it's actually erred... and at THAT point, there's a "perfectly good explanation".
2007-09-12 19:36:56 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
particular, it incredibly is inerrant. There at the instant are not any contradictions in it. people who make that declare fail to appreciate that The Bible is an unfolding narrative. As somebody right here at YA positioned it. "Jack went up the beanstalk, Jack got here down the beanstalk." Is that a contradiction? No. not whilst it incredibly is understood interior the context of an unfolding narrative. All of Scripture is God-breathed, or inspired. there could be some translator errors, yet they're minor and that they don't impact any doctrine or the final message.
2016-10-10 11:56:09 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. And I'm a Christian.
Much of the bible was divinely inspired, there is no doubt in my mind.
But many of the stories were recorded on scrolls many generations after the time which they were supposed to have happened. Some of those stories were handed down through the oral tradition; many details may have been dysremembered, changed, omitted or exaggerated by the storyteller. Also, all these texts were translated from a few different languages, often by people who were of questionable character and education, so many parts of them may have been mistranslated. Not to mention the fact that the people who wrote them the first place--no matter how divinely inspired many of the texts undoubtedly were--were every bit as imperfect as we are, and not necessarily disinclined from adding their own poisonous lies to those texts.
I love the Lord Jesus, and choose to believe that the gospels are accurate. I know that there is much wisdom in much of the rest of the bible, both in the old testament and the new testament. But Christian law is this: Love God, and love your neighbor. Any rule or law in any other place in the bible--and there are many--that conflicts with Christian law, is not Christian.
I will leave you with some of what I believe the Lord has guided me to know as his truth:
The account of Jesus' teachings, earthly life, earthly death, and resurrection found in the gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John).
1 John 4:7-8
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
John 15:13
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
John 1:1
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
John 14:6
"Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
2007-09-12 20:05:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how people can insist on inerrancy. Just from translation issues there are errors. And there is plenty of contradictory stuff. In one place Paul commends Priscilla and refers to her as an apostle, in another he forbids women to have authority over a man? It's silly to try to make a human construct into something perfect.
2007-09-12 19:32:10 · answer #4 · answered by keri gee 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I do not. There are places that Paul plainly states he is giving his opinion... not "Thus saith the Lord" revelation. Moses taught divorce for any cause and Jesus refuted it saying this was not so from the beginning, that Moses gave them that precept because of the hardness of their hearts.
There are also many missing books that the Bible itself refers to such as the Book of Gad, The Book of Iddo the Seer, missing letters of Paul and many others.
Many worship the Bible as if it were the manifestation of God Himself. They turn it into an idol. The Bible is a tool of God, just as a church (hopefully) is a tool of God to bring people unto Him. The Bible is like a saw that is used by the master Carpenter with nail scarred hands. The saw is old, has some rust and missing teeth... but is still quite usable as a saw to cut wood.
Some people will pick apart the Bibe looking for minutia and whatever flaw they can find, real or imagined, and reject the entire thing. That is like rejecting a supermodel wife just because she has a few zits. We should not reject the things of God because of the weaknesses of men. Men wrote the Bible in weakness, they received inspiration and revelation in weakness, they copy it in weakness, and translate it in weakness. In spite of it all and all the potential flaws, the truth of the gospel message still shines forth.
2007-09-12 19:56:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe EVERY WORD of the Bible--even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff.
2007-09-12 22:07:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is a difference between believe and knowledge.
you can believe anything you want to, but fact won't change. you learn fact and it becomes knowledge.
there are no errors in the bible. it just that some people do not accept explanations provided to their questions - by deciding to disagree with any answer given prior to asking a question.
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keri gee: funny you mention translation. i read bible in at least two different languages (in addition to English), so i am familiar with at least 3 non-English translations. bible in all translations means the same.
as far as Paul and ladies: you must not take things out of context (both scriptural and historical). in one case he mentions lady who was in position of authority (which was the case truly), and in another case he rebukes church that had a problem where wifes did not behave correctly.
two non-related events.
good questions though!
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zero: ever met little kid? he asks you question, you give him answer, but he does not buy it and asks same question again?
bible does not errors. refusing to accept logical explanation is a mistake. this is not to say that bible does not mention things that are clearly marked as extraordinary (like talking donkey for example).
if you would like, start posting errors in bible here and see us explain them to you (but not right now! - i got to go to sleep :).. )
2007-09-12 19:32:39 · answer #7 · answered by zoobrenok 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Hell no. That's not to say it's perfectly errant either - anything human has a mix of factors in it.
2007-09-12 19:44:22 · answer #8 · answered by dukefenton 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Funny word doctrine. The bible has no doctrine; it is a tool for believers.
Answer: I believe the bible is sole authority and that it interrupts itself. God word is revealed not classified.
2007-09-12 19:33:56 · answer #9 · answered by J. 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The bible has more errors in it than a first graders attempt at calculus.
2007-09-12 19:30:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋