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Originally Posted by Igzy
We believe the Scripture is without error. The next step is to define "error." Clearly it cannot mean that every quote is recorded exactly as it was made, because the same incidents are quoted differently in the different Gospels.
That, perhaps, gives us some clue as how to regard the Scripture. You can created doctrines out of the differences, as with Lee's baffling kingdom of heaven/kingdom of God dichotomy. Or you can do what I prefer to do--take it as a sign to not quibble over words, but to step back and get the bigger picture.
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In PM I told Ohio about my cousin here. For decades he was a deacon in a very conservative -- no pants, wine only, KJV only -- Southern Baptist church.
So he was so gung ho about the Bible he took Koine Greek classes to read it in "the original" Greek.
After learning Greek we were talking one day and he told me he could no longer say that the Bible is inerrant.
But one day, in Sunday School class, there was asked for all hands that believed the Bible is inerrant, and he raised his hand, along with everyone else.
He lied. Cuz there's social pressure in his church to hold to inerrancy.
Ohio responded with a question. He asked what my cousin meant by inerrancy.
So this morning I called my cousin to ask him.
In a nutshell he said : Is the Bible inerrant? Yes. Is the Bible we have today inerrant? No.
He went on to say that, he believed that the autograph copies were inspired by the Holy Spirit. And that they were inerrant. But the second copy of the autograph, was not inspired of Spirit and wasn't inerrant ... and so on down the line, thru all the manuscript copies, up to today.
In other words, the scribes that copied from copy to copy were not inspired of the Holy Spirit, and therefore the copies weren't inspired, so the Bible we have today is not inerrant.
He used to be a KJV, Textus Receptus, only believer. But after being able to read it in Greek he thinks the KJV is a bad translation.
But he did say that in spite of the errancy, the message from God still comes thru.
And he told me he didn't lie in that Sunday School class. Because he does believe the Bible is inerrant. He just didn't tell them that the Bible they did have, in their hands, is errant.