(January 5, 2022 at 10:30 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(January 5, 2022 at 8:41 pm)Jehanne Wrote: For Christians, the Bible is no longer an infallible authority; instead, it is the individual believer, denomination, etc., who decides what is literal and that which is not. In other words, Christianity has gone from being objective to subjective.
"Infallible" is the real problem here. It tends to suggest "can not be questioned"... "is perfect"... "is better than anything you might think."
I have long thought that Christianity would be much less poisonous and evil without the concept of biblical inerrancy. It's a kind of decent religion without all that. But alas....
It shares this characteristic with the Koran. Both are taken by many believers to be infallible. And that is what leads to atrocities. Get someone who think their texts is telling them to kill off those who disagree and you have real evil.
