Biblical Inerrancy

Faith is the crutch with which religion props up the belief in something that not only makes no sense but is also unnecessary. So how do you pull that off? Make it seem like faith is a virtue and lack of it a vice.

I came across this email someone had sent me and it made me both laugh and cry a little. It’s a tired and fictional account of some valiant christian student, standing up to the bullying domination by an atheist college professor. More like the written version of a Chick comic than a true story… and just as entertaining.

The most common response I get from defenders of the bible centers around the argument that states, "You must be guided by the holy spirit in order to understand the bible".

Others tell me that some older translation is without error and that to clear up my cloudy understanding of the modern text, all I need do is learn ancient Greek, Hebrew and get ahold of some original manuscripts- then it will all become clear.

Well, if that’s true, my question is, "Why?"

Those people telling me that don’t actually read original texts in Greek. How did they arrive at this perfect understanding? And why would an omniscient god bury such important information in such obscurity? Doesn’t my eternal soul depend on understanding this stuff?

So what if my only means of understanding the word is through modern English translations? If those versions are full of errors, does god just hate English-speakers?

Now back to this holy spirit guidance thing. If that is true then I am truly out in the cold. No- wait a minute. I used to believe this crap. So the holy spirit must have at one time favored me and blessed me with understanding- only to pull the plug.

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