(March 15, 2013 at 6:46 am)Brakeman Wrote:(March 14, 2013 at 11:44 pm)jstrodel Wrote: I would further argue that the Bible does not really require 100% theological accuracy.
How could it not be 100% accurate if god were real as opined?
If Billions of christians truly heard the holy ghost and had even the slightest bit of guidance from him, then the culmination of that much god talk would necessarily have polished the bible to a perfect work, given that god is unchanging. It is as if a billion imperfect sculptors all with one perfect vision were sculpting a Venus de Milo, after the first few, the following billions would be adjusting ever smaller imperfections, until all imperfections were removed.
If you keep adding sides to a polygon, you eventually get a smooth polished circle, similarly, if god gives authors any real inspiration, the work would be without blemish by now despite man's fallibility.
Instead, we get the exact result expected if god is made up in every believer's head, a jumbled, vague, biased, mishmash of nonsense.
No, actually what you get is 2000 years of Christian tradition in which God permits the exegesis of specific concepts out of the Biblical culture and the application of them into a new culture. The product is so close together that Christians read the different theologies as devotional literature.
The differences between theology is small. But if God demanded 100% accuracy in everything that God did, would he even be able to communicate with sinful people whose hearts were corrupted by pride and whose sins filled the linguistic categories and philosophical categories of Hebrew and Greek?
God talks to people in their own language. It is perfect, but it does not reveal everything about God because God is unknowable, very separate from all creation. We know God only as God reveals himself, no one has ever seen God and Gods basic nature could not be communicated.
Some Christians believe in Biblical innerancy. This is fine, they consider that the text of the Bible is without any errors in it.
