Timeline for According to non-inerrantist Christians, what are the strongest arguments against the inerrancy of the Protestant Bible?
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| Oct 13, 2022 at 10:52 | comment | added | user50422 | @RayButterworth - I guess you believe NDEs are genuine supernatural phenomena then ... | |
| Oct 13, 2022 at 3:27 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | @SpiritRealmInvestigator, if one applies Occam's razor, isn't atheism the simplest answer? Once one assumes there is no supernatural, then science is as close to the truth as one can get, and all religions are complicated human inventions. | |
| Oct 12, 2022 at 21:45 | comment | added | user50422 | @RayButterworth - Isn't that what Occam's razor suggests? Aren't you arguing in a similar manner here? | |
| Oct 12, 2022 at 19:19 | comment | added | Dan Fefferman | @RayButterworth the OP asked for the strongest argument against inerrancy. Some are clearly stronger than others. | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 19:27 | comment | added | Only True God | @GratefulDisciple "My experience teaching theology has been that more students give up belief in the Bible’s authority because they were taught it depends on absolute inerrancy (even in matters of cosmology and history) than because they are taught it isn’t inerrant." Right. Self-inflicted gunshot wound to the knee for these people re Christendom, IMO. | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 18:00 | comment | added | GratefulDisciple | Theology professor Roger Olson has interesting personal experiences about inerrancy that makes him think that evangelical understanding of inerrancy has become a shibboleth and instead we should focus on infallibility. | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 17:54 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | So the argument is that since one position is much easier to hold than the other, it's best to take the easy position, regardless of which is correct? | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 17:12 | comment | added | Only True God | +1 "For him, the problem with a strict adherence to inerrancy is that once a reader is convinced of even one real mistake by biblical writers, the whole house of cards falls." Right, it's creates a (fallacious) all-or-nothing mentality, a highly brittle epistemic structure. But Christianity is actually supposed to rest on a living relationship to Jesus Christ, not an inerrant view of the Bible. | |
| Oct 11, 2022 at 14:40 | history | answered | Dan Fefferman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |