(March 8, 2014 at 3:00 pm)Brakeman Wrote:(March 8, 2014 at 1:12 pm)discipulus Wrote: One does not have to believe in the inerrancy of scripture to be a Christian. I do not know where you got that from.
Well allow me to whack that down for you. If the bible contains errors, then the writers of the bible lied about it being god's word written by the divine guidance of the holy ghost, as instead it would be simply man's story about god, without any divine information. If the bible has errors then the story given to the writers by the holy spirit has errors, and if you claim that the holy spirit makes errors, then the holy spirit isn't of god quality as is the basis of the whole con.
If god makes mistakes, how in the hell did he ever become god?
I saw the new religious movie "300 Rise of an Empire" the other day. It's about the Persian emperor king Xerxes (known in the Bible as Ahasuerus). Anyway, in the movie he actually becomes a god. In the Bible he ruled from India to Ethiopia. The movie is concerned about his campaign against the Greeks. For all intents and purposes he was God on Earth at that time but his failure to knock the Greeks into line ultimately led to his downfall.
The point is that most references in the Bible to God and all of the references to Lord refer to the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian emperors. When the God character was making threats it was simply a man who was doing the talking.
http://www.bible-history.com/maps/maps/m...mpire.html
