Is The Bible Inerrant?

[zeek]

Originally Posted by OBW

Inerrancy is a ruse to win an argument without making an argument. Just state that your position is God-ordained and walk away.

Yes, the doctrine of inerrancy requires that apparent textual anomalies must either be denied or explained as errors of human understanding rather than flaws in the text itself.

[awareness]

Originally Posted by zeek

Yes, the doctrine of inerrancy requires that apparent textual anomalies must either be denied or explained as errors of human understanding rather than flaws in the text itself.

Well if we're gonna talk inerrancy of the Bible, we have to use the Bible to prove it. Right? Or our answers will be extra-Biblical.

Please somebody prove me wrong, but I can only find hints enough to provoke my imagination into extra-Bible answers, explanations, and conclusions concerning the matter of Biblical inerrancy..

There's no well defined doctrine on inerrancy in the Bible, that's for sure. So our conclusions of certitude, as some have, are extra-Biblical.

Please, somebody take me down on this.

[OBW]

Originally Posted by awareness

Well if we're gonna talk inerrancy of the Bible, we have to use the Bible to prove it. Right?

Not really. We have to figure out how whatever the Bible says is historically, scientifically, socially, philosophically, etc., true in every way. Might be able to get the philosophical and social parts to at least be true in a broad sense, but not everyone will agree. Whatever it says about science was never intended as an accurate, detailed explanation of something scientific, but was instead spoken within the knowledge (or lack thereof) of the people to whom it was written. At some level, even some of the history is probably compressed.

So in some people's minds, the Bible can never be inerrant in the way the people who argue about inerrancy claim that it has to be.

In short, the best talk about inerrancy is the one in which we conclude that it is itself a colored lens that skews (or skewers) the actual truth that is in the Bible. And in the process, kick it to the curb with Nee and Lee (and a lot of others).