The Bible. All or nothing?

[Jacob(smooth)]

I thought Christians in general believed that God wrote the bible by controlling peoples hands. Given God is supposed to be omnipotent*, the bible must be exactly as he wished it to be. Any errors become a big problem, and must have been put in purposefully by God.

Some do. I don't. I think its self evident that the bible was written by very fallible men.

Even if you think humans wrote down the events involving God that happened, you have the problem that God knows exactly how to influence events so that the bible gets written the way he wants it to be**. Omnipotence gets pretty farcical when you actually think about it.

I'm not convinced that God has much interest in the bible. I think its a combination of people trying to record events they saw, or understood and shit that people made up to further their own agenda.

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I don't understand. If you think some parts are good and some parts are bad and you're using it as a self-help book, then it's really not a special book. Yet you believe the god claim the book makes... ?

Those are not compatible beliefs.

I don't think those are incompatible beliefs, although I will accept that if one does not accept the bible as inerrant then the bible is not an adequate REASON to hold those beliefs, in and of itself. I can believe the God claim the book makes for reasons other than that the book says it.

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If god is all powerful then why would he allow those writing his word to err, or worse, change it to benefit themselves?

Is it his word? I'm not sure it is. I believe in some form of force in the universe Which I loosely characterize as "God". I'm open to the idea that some people have a greater understanding or presence of this force. I don't think their is any argument to be made that a compilation of writings of ancient peoples understanding of this force and these people is itself divine or "Gods word".