(August 14, 2018 at 11:35 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I also wouldn't expect a non-believer, to believe in Biblical inerrancy.
Yeah. That would be weird.
Thanks for your reply. Really, I think it's pretty dangerous to take any book as absolutely true and beyond questioning. I mean, I could produce documentation of Christian cults for whom abuse of their members was justified by Biblical passages, but I don't think those instances apply to mainstream Christians. But take any book... say Plato's Republic... a favorite of mine. If you read the book and try to unearth the nugget of moral truth within, it will serve as a great benefit. But to literally follow it as if it were unquestionable truth would be horrible.
I know that Methodists don't push the idea of inerrancy. One of the main reasons for their doing that is that they feel the different books of the Bible are better understood in context. And that's true of any piece of writing. To understand it in context is to better understand it--period.
The problem I have is that I've known fully grown adults who have repeated the claim that everything in the Bible is true, but hadn't really considered or given much thought to the fact that the Bible was written and compiled by people throughout history. There are people who literally think that God wrote it himself. It wouldn't be such a problem for me if so many people who "believe every word" of scripture weren't so malinformed.
