This Is A Fair Question

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Chicago statement on inerrancy:
http://www.bible-researcher.com/chicago1.html

WE AFFIRM  that God in His work of inspiration utilized the distinctive personalities and literary styles of the writers whom He had chosen and prepared.

More's the pity, then, that he didn't hold out for and prepare better writers to deliver his 'inspired' message. Shakespeare, Flaubert, or Joyce . . . that would have been good.

Then again, a semi-literate fish monger might have delivered better copy than some of the literary "heavyweights" who got the nod.

It's almost as if this whole 'divine inspiration' gimmick is really just an excuse to legitimize certain parochial interests in a backward region of the world. But of course that can't be true because the book itself says otherwise.