A moral and ethical question for theists

[Redbeard The Pink]

You say the bible is not infallible, yet you agree with Randy saying it is inerrant.


This kind of definition mongering is splitting hairs at best and self-contradictory at worst. Either the bible contains errors, or it doesn't; either the writers recorded god's word perfectly, or imperfectly. You are either arbitrarily cherry picking verses, or you aren't. You cannot have this both ways.


In the case of revelation, all you need is the last few sentences to shoot your "inerrant but not infallible" argument in both dicks. At the end of revelation, John writes (paraphrased), "Any who adds to the words of this book, good will add as much to his punishments in hell; any who takes away from the words of this book, god will take away as much from his rewards in heaven."


Some people take this warning to apply strictly to revelation, and others take it to apply to the whole bible. In any case, the text explicitly states that an incomplete reading or teaching of this text will be punished by god directly. Was that part "inspired," or not?


Randy, you do seem to believe the inerrancy of scripture. Catholic lady seems pretty wishy-washy on it, and she's not the first Catholic I've met who does that.