Johnny Skeptic

The notion that the Bible is inerrant is quite absurd and not supported by any credible evidence at all. As Elaine Pagels has said, "The victors [orthodox Christians] rewrote history, 'their way.'"

Surely a God who would allow hundreds of millions of people to die without ever having heard the Gospel message would not be the least bit interested in preserving Biblical inerrancy. Having an errant Bible is surely no worse than not knowing about the Bible at all.

lpetrich

I once thought of an ingenious reconciliation of its errancy and its alleged divine inspiration.

God had inspired the Bible's writers to deliberately put in errors as a way of warning people not to be too literal-minded about its contents.

S.C.Carlson

:devil3:

GakuseiDon

I like that!

steamer

Can god err on purpose? Isn't that like lying? If he lies, how could we trust what he says? Personally I'd find it difficult to trust that a lying god isn't going to send all the atheists to heaven and all the theists will end up elsewhere. So it must be that the bible is either divinely inspired and inerrant or it is written by men. I see lots of men that can write and only ideas of gods which inspire.

Anat

Considering that the biblical god likes liars and tricksters when he agrees with them (Jacob, David) I can't see why God would avoid trickery.