RE: For People Who Think There Was No Historical Jesus
February 11, 2013 at 11:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2013 at 11:58 pm by Cyberman.)
(February 11, 2013 at 11:43 pm)catfish Wrote: Why do/did people call it inerrant when there's no reason to? I honestly don't think any logical person could ever read it for themself and come to that conclusion. I'm 99.9% sure that in every case it is because someone else convinced them.
To be honest, I have no idea why people cling to this notion of biblical inerrancy. The only justification I can think of, and which I've heard from believers who think this way, is that the book has to be perfect in every way because it was written (or inspired) by God and so must be inerrant, because anything less would mean that God is less than perfect, and we know that God must be perfect because the bible was written by God and thus has to be perfect and when does this Magic Roundabout ever stop I feel sick please please please let me off...
As you might imagine, I'm less than convinced.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
