A New Discrepancy

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TILL
Here is a new discrepancy that I don't recall any inerrantist ever defending
on this list.  Perhaps Matt Bell or Lenny Esposito or some other inerrantist
on the list would care to explain to us why this should not be considered a
chronological contradiction.

The problem occurs in two accounts of the same event, the story of the first
Gentile converts to Christianity.  Acts 10 states that Peter went to the
house of Cornelius and preached a sermon that begins in verse 34 and ends in
verse 43, after which it says that "(w)hile Peter yet spoke these words, the
Holy Spirit fell on all them that heard the word" (v:44).  However, when
Peter returned to Jerusalem, he was questioned about what he had done.  In
recounting the event, Peter told how he had arrived at the house of
Cornelius, where he was told about a vision in which an angel had advised
Cornelius to send for Peter who would speak to him words by which he could
be saved.  "And as I BEGAN to speak," Peter said to his accusers, "the Holy
Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning" (11:15).  Hence, one
account states that Peter preached a sermon before the Holy Spirit fell on
the household of Cornelius, but at Jerusalem Peter said that the Holy Spirit
fell on Cornelius and his household as Peter BEGAN	to speak.

Maybe some inerrantist on the list can tell us why this is not a
chronological discrepancy, which means that there is at least one error in
the Bible.


Farrell Till
Skepticism, Inc.
jftill@midwest.net

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