(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....
Nit pick here...in the Roman church and the Lutherans, at least, "infalibilty" refers to purpose (scripture achieves its purpose), not content.
I do not agree with this evasion, btw.
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