A moral and ethical question for theists

[Randy Carson]

Because we believe the Catholic Church's doctrine is revealed Truth and protected from human error by the Holy Spirit.

Also, I never said Revelations was a bunch of crap.   Please read carefully as not to misrepresent my beliefs.

Ummm...you do realize that many people believe that EXACT thing about the bible, right? If god protects the church's proclamations, why wouldn't he also protect the bible? If he doesn't protect the bible and only inspires it, what makes you think he offers that protection for your doctrines?[/color]

The Bible was and is protected by God. After all, He had Catholic monks copying it carefully and passing it along for nearly 1400 years before the invention of the printing press. So, the Bible was penned, preached, preserved, protected promoted and promulgated by Catholics.

You're welcome.

Also, stay consistent please. One moment you're distancing yourself from revelation, the next you're back-pedaling toward it. If you only believe that some small part is valid, that still concedes that the rest is basically junk.

The entire Bible is the inerrant, inspired word of God. From Genesis to Revelation. All of it is valid.

By the way, have you noticed that the more we learn about science, the more scripture is viewed as metaphor? It's almost as if every time we learn something new it shits on the bible. Why would this happen?

No, I have not noticed this. Have you noticed that the more we discover from archaeology, the more the Bible is vindicated as a reliable source of information?

Also, how can Catholics believe the bible is inerrant when it contains so many scientific and historical errors?

Inerrancy extends to what the biblical writers intend to teach, not necessarily to what they assume or presuppose or what isn’t integral to what they assert. In order to distinguish these things, scholars must examine the kind of writing or literary genre the biblical writers employ.

As Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch explain in the introduction to the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible:

"The guarantee of inerrancy does not mean, however, that the Bible is an all-purpose encyclopedia of information covering every field of study. The Bible is not, for example, a textbook in the empirical sciences, and it should not be treated as one. When biblical authors relate facts of the natural order, we can be sure they are speaking in a purely descriptive and "phenomenological" way, according to the way things appeared to their senses."