(July 2, 2018 at 2:41 pm)robvalue Wrote: The thing is, "divinely inspired" or not, it's either perfect or it isn't. And if it isn't, every bit of it needs to pass scrutiny on its own merits.
Clearly it isn't perfect, far from it. Trying to argue that it is requires ignoring not only the internal problems but reality itself.
In a broad sense, I can agree. In fact, I can't recall any verse within the Bible that asserts that the Bible is literally perfect. So we can deduce that a doctrine that insists such a thing is indeed a man made doctrine, and not a God doctrine.
This does not, however, lead me to the conclusion that God doesn't use the Bible to speak to me.