Is The Bible Inerrant?

[Guest5]

Originally Posted by OBW

But if we remove inerrancy from the discussion, we return to a collection of writings that describe the God in whom we must have faith, not fact, to believe and follow. We eliminate the need to fight about the ancient forms of prose, poetry, etc., used in describing phenomenon for which they had no first-hand knowledge (creation, the fall, even the flood). The purpose was not a detailed, factual account of creation, etc., but a telling of the person and actions of God with respect to man. And the truth concerning God is accurately revealed even if precise science and history is not.

So don't fret over our minor disagreement. Who gave us inerrancy to argue over is not that important.

Inerrancy is to God as errancy is to a book like the bible, whose going to agree to that proposition? Only one or two, maybe, and three would be too much by this time.

However, your suggestion of removing the inerrancy and returning to a collection of writings is much better than having us all in here arguing over and over again for this non-essential thing (inerrancy of the bible) that would lead not our soul to the gate of the kingdom of God. What would our soul benefit from elevating the bible to the level which is only fitted to the Lord God? Would God be delighted with us if we treat the bible as if it were God?

God is always here with us to help us resolve things which are impossible to all of us to fathom with, while the truth about inerrancy if placed or not placed in the bible is not a big thing for God to shed the light to us, be it in our dreams or in our daily activities in life. How we believe and trust God matters most of all to Him rather than believing the bible to be inerrant or not which is just a waste of time and effort on our part.