(November 27, 2018 at 9:14 pm)YahwehIsTheWay Wrote:(November 27, 2018 at 8:44 pm)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: People will almost always find what they want to find. If you want to find fault in something, there are probably a million ways to find fault in anything, but if you try to find truth in something, you'll learn even from problems and mistakes.
The Bible either IS the infallible Word of God or it ISN'T. There is no "sort of Word of God" option.
That's such a broad statement. Your OP statement was that Mary supposedly had a 10 year pregnancy. I understand if you want to believe that or even assert that the intended context was such, but I'm not seeing it. Your argument seems to rely on the use of "is" to determine tense, but it was translated from Greek. A translation of anything can easily be fallible, because it's not authentic. It's simply someone's take on the context. They may have good intentions, but people make mistakes. That's why they make erasers for pencils and a delete key on your keyboard. The English language is mostly a mesh of other languages and many times it's overly simplistic, which actually makes it difficult for some people to learn. We say "love", Greeks say that same word 8 different ways, with four being used commonly (Agape, Storge, Philia, Eros). We say "left" or "right", but many languages use directions (N,S,E,W) to share what shoe they're referring to. My point here is your relying on a fallible interpretation to show that something else is fallible.
Please keep in mind that I'm not saying you're wrong or that your intent isn't good, but that I can't come to the same conclusion based on what is known.
