Timeline for How can a reasonable faith be placed in the Being that inspired the Bible if it is "inspired" but not "inerrant"?
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| Apr 4 at 15:50 | comment | added | Mike Borden | @Mark The debates certainly abound. I am cautious about sourcing the debates within a faulty Bible rather than within the wayward hearts of mankind. Thanks for your input! | |
| Apr 4 at 15:35 | comment | added | user61679 | @MikeBorden I presume at the very least there must be some essential kernels of truth that God must have ensured were preserved without (significant) errors or distortions, such as the pivotal role of Christ in salvation, although everything is up for debate (see christianity.stackexchange.com/q/74835/61679, christianity.stackexchange.com/q/83011/61679) | |
| Apr 4 at 15:23 | comment | added | Mike Borden | Sorry. For clarity, errors allowed in the Bible can or cannot interfere with the truth God intends to convey to us? | |
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| Apr 4 at 14:21 | comment | added | user61679 | @MikeBorden That's up to God. Just like it's up to God how much evil He allows in His creation without it interfering in whatever goals He has. | |
| Apr 4 at 13:53 | comment | added | Mike Borden | Such that any errors, if they have occurred, do not impinge on in any way or detract from whatever has been inspired (in the traditional sense)? | |
| Apr 4 at 13:45 | comment | added | user61679 | @MikeBorden Sure, in the sense that everything that happens in the universe is ultimately superintended by God. Even Satan and his demons are ultimately superintended by God. | |
| Apr 4 at 13:35 | comment | added | Mike Borden | Given your appeal to the problem of evil and yet God working everything together for the good of those who love Him, would you be comfortable using the term 'superintended' rather than 'partly inspired' for the generation and propagation of the Biblical texts? | |
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| Dec 1, 2023 at 14:23 | comment | added | user61679 |
@MikeBorden Any errors can be traced back to a cause other than God. So yes, you could say that a given set of manuscripts can be considered partly inspired if an erroneous fraction was not inspired. I don't see anything wrong with that. We never see Jesus correcting the Scriptures themselves, just human interpretation This is an argument from silence. Besides, the New Testament was not around yet at the time.
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| Dec 1, 2023 at 13:41 | comment | added | Mike Borden | If errors are included within Scripture by causes outside of the inspiration of God, i.e. human free will choices/mistakes, how can they be held as inspired, at least inspired as a whole? But this question is not about a Scripture that is considered partly inspired. I think this answer actually negates inspiration in the same way that evil being (correctly) understood as allowed by God for His sovereign purposes results in the understanding that evil is not caused or inspired by God. We never see Jesus correcting the Scriptures themselves, just human interpretation. | |
| Nov 30, 2023 at 2:21 | comment | added | Hold To The Rod | This is an insightful application of the problem of evil. +1 | |
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| Nov 29, 2023 at 17:33 | history | answered | user61679 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |