(April 17, 2013 at 2:00 pm)Tex Wrote:(April 17, 2013 at 12:58 pm)Esquilax Wrote: What do you mean by infallible? Because it obviously doesn't mean "always correct," in your parlance, because the bible is factually wrong on numerous points. So... you know, help us out, define your terms before we begin shooting these fish you've so helpfully put into a barrel for us.
I'm using infallible to speak of what it teaches. Ya, some numbers are definitely off and multiple variations of stories are sometimes told, but that which is to be derived from the text is "always correct".
But not all of what it teaches, either. I mean, you don't take what your god teaches about slavery to be at all true, nor his urging you to execute people for nonbelief.
Be honest: when you say "derived from the text," what you really mean is "the passages that I like and that aren't too politically incorrect," no?
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