Squaring circles: direct biblical contradictions

Hello Blzebub,From reading the thread, it doesn't seem like you care to have an earnest discussion about the Bible being the word of God but would rather have a little fun trolling some Christians with Bible contradictions. If its the latter then just let me know up front so I won't waste anymore of my time. Why?Its not impossible for a perfect god to put his words in a book and allow for errors in it.The Bible is a book written by men. I don't see why having some errors means that they weren't inspired by God. Non necessarily.Another possible conclusion is that the Bible is God's word but is not perfect.Why couldn't a perfect god make an imperfect book?

"Christians" is a pretty big and diverse group of people. Making sweeping generalizations about their beliefs is not going to help you understand them.Catholics recognize the Bible as the Word of God but don't believe that it is literally inerrant. I don't see the point in bringing up the imperfection though.I suppose the chistians that never describe the Bible that way do think that it is perfect. Now? It didn't have anything to do with this thread. In fact, the doctrine of inerrancy is a very recent deal.

Seconded!The only reason I read this thread is because I love Purpledawn's stuff.I always read and appreciate her take on the Bible and I feel like I have learned a lot from her.Thank you Purpledawn!

But that just can't be right...For example, lets take the claim from Genesis that the Earth was made before the Sun.Either that's not literally the Word of God or God's Word does actually contain errors.

Sounds like you need a new church... What are you?I fit into the Theistic Evolutionist category.

Maybe you could convince yourself, and/or your family, that a new church would be a better thing to do for them... Its overrated. I find agnosticism to be the default, naturally and logically. Well I'm Catholic I have a BS from U of I. All? I don't think scientific positions rely on faith, in fact, quite the opposite. The position isn't taken until the evidence suggests it and faith is belief without evidence, so... yeah. I was full feldge atheist before I got mine. Then I came back. Maybe you should try it Yeah... there's some leniency here with going off topic if we're just having a nice conversation, but it is frowned upon a little. Except for Adminmoose, he doesn't give any slack. If he notices, he'll immediately hide our messages and tell us to stop.Although, I guess this would be a great opportunity to use the new messaging system. Feel free to send me a reply to this that way if you want to continue. I usually do.You too.