Kendemyer,
I absolutely agree about inerrancy. For example, many skeptics decided that the discrepancies among the details in the Gospels concerning Christ's resurrection pointed to some flaw in the theory of inerrancy. How many women and which women went to the tomb? Which day? Was it before or after sunrise? What did they see? How many angels were there? Were the angels inside the tomb or outside? These sorts of discrepancies are just what we'd expect to see, after all, if the Bible were, well, errant.
Luckily, people like us who know the Bible is inerrant can use this indisputable fact to defend the theory of inerrancy. Since the Bible is God's word and thus can never be anything but the Absolute Truth, the discrepancies pointed out by doubters must be explained as follows:
1) God wants us to believe that the Bible is His word.
2) Accepting something that truly makes literal sense can be done by anyone, whether a Christian or not.
3) Thus, the only people who would believe that the Bible is the literal truth are those who have been blessed with the subtle, profound understanding that can reconcile these obvious contradictions.
I'm glad we worship a God who is so sure of the rational faculties of His followers that he fills His book with things that seem cruel, nonsensical, or allegorical to those who don't have faith. Only those of us blessed with holy insight can see what He intended, because the contradictions wouldn't be there if God didn't intend them to be there. So it seems they're not contradictions after all, because they're in the Bible.
regards,
Esteban "So There" Hambre
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