ramoss writes:
And what are the facts? Different people claim different facts with their claims of innerrency.
Thats another thing! I have read many of the reasons why the Bible is fallible. I must say that I respect some of the people who believe this way, such as Brian. On the other hand, I have read some respected apologist literature and those guys tell a different tale. If they were a bunch of backwoods Arkansas fundies, I would dismiss the claims of apologetic proof entirely. The fact is, many many authors have also made quite a claim for Biblical soundness.
So I ask myself, why such a controversy? Are the educated apologists such as Norman Geisler, Peter Kreeft, C.S. Lewis, Simon Greenleaf( a former attorney) and many others so dead wrong? It almost seems as if there is a vendetta...call it a spiritual war!
Its like trying to listen to what one guy says and have another guy whispering in your ear "don't believe him!" "He has a history of mental illness!" and then showing me facts of such.
I question things, but what I have seen in this innerency/fairy tale debate leaves me only with the conclusion that there is no prrof academically either way.
So I again look to human nature. It is true that we have progressed in many areas of our capabilities. We can cure or prevent many diseases. We can understand the human mind in ways that we never could before. Yet...yet we cannot stop war. We cannot discourage greed. Murder is at an alltime high. People are as restless as ever.
Yes, the Bible itself is just an old book of chronicles. The issue behind innerrency is tthe belief of whether or not there is a God and of whether or not humans need Him. Belief leads credibilility to innerrent intent.
If we ask ourselves the motive behind belief in an innerrent message, we must then ask ourselves the motive for attempting to disprove the same.
Marshall MacLuhan writes:
Personally, I have a great faith in the resiliency and adaptability of man, and I tend to look to our tomorrows with a surge of excitement and hope. I feel that we're standing on the threshold of a liberating and exhilarating world in which the human tribe can become truly one family and man's consciousness can be freed from the shackles of mechanical culture and enabled to roam the cosmos. I have a deep and abiding belief in man's potential to grow and learn, to plumb the depths of his own being and to learn the secret songs that orchestrate the universe. We live in a transitional era of profound pain and tragic identity quest, but the agony of our age is the labor pain of rebirth.
I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every facet of the terrestrial artifact as if it were a work of art, and man himself will become an organic art form.
So will Ye be as gods? Is the old fable in any way prophetic about the attitude of human potential and destiny?
Or is spiritual truth a human concept that has outlived its usefullness?
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