(April 5, 2017 at 12:22 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(April 5, 2017 at 12:19 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: You said that a whole chapter of the first book of the bible can be safely disregarded. This is despite the fact that at many places in both the ot and nt it is stated that the bible has to be taken as inerrant in full.
Either you're right or your holy book, the whole foundation of your religion, is right. There is no middle ground.
In fairness to Steve, inerrancy =/= literalism.
Agreed. It is a vague term of art and not a particularly useful one at that. No one is disregarding Genesis. That is a silly accusation. Most of us just don't consider it a scientific sequential account of how the world came to be. It isn't even really one book; but rather, like the bible itself, a literary compilation based on a prior oral tradition. You don't need to look any further than a comparison of Gen 1 and Gen 2 to figure that one out.
