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Tentativity and The Bible

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DWIII
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01-16-2012 8:57 AM

Creationists presume Biblical inerrancy and/or completeness and certainty. Scientists recognize the value of tentativity. Which is a better method for understanding the nature of the Bible (and, as an aside, the world around us)?
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What fundamentalists call "The Bible" has many of the earmarks of having been a work in progress, even though it is now considered by them frozen in completed form, which either stands together or falls together as one monolithic whole.
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Is examining the Bible in scientific terms (i.e., determining its origins, previous sources, history of formation, superfluous accretions, implied missing bits, and so on) somehow considered verboten and/or sacrilegious? Paul himself said (in 1 Thessalonians 5:21):
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Test all things, hold fast what is good.
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"Testing all things" is the very foundation of scientific inquiry. Why should any aspect of the Bible itself be exempt?
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01-16-2012 9:00 AM

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