Does Inerrancy Require Literalism?

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CLAIRE
I cannot say that "Scripture means what I say it does". As I have said before, I
wouldn't have a clue about how to interpret much of Scripture. I think that my
church and my commentaries have offered some plausible interpretations.


RICK G
Claire, if you don't "have a clue about how to interpret much of Scripture",
then you're at the mercy of anyone in your church who sounds plausible, aren't
you? Read this next verse:

Paul to the Corinthians
1Cor 1:13  "For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or
**acknowledge**; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;" (Emphasis
mine)


Wouldn't you say that this is plain enough? Paul said that what he wrote was
what they all could read and acknowledge. If they "acknowledged" what he wrote,
then it follows they must have *understood*. In 1Cor 1:18, god sai he would
"destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of
the prudent", and in verses 26 and 27 Paul says "For ye see your calling,
brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many
noble, are called: 27  But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound
the things which are mighty." Wouldn't this be saying that the "wise", the
"mighty" and the "noble"  in your church are "confounded" by the "simplicity of
Christ", so that listening to them would be going against what god said?


So, why do you have to go to your church and "her" commentaries, when Paul says
that what he writes is comprehensible? Moreoever, do you not have "the holy
spirit" to guide you through the bible? (1Co 2:14-16) If god wrote this book for
common people to understand, then why do we need theologians to tell us what it
means? Do you see the problems this causes?



Rick Gaudreau
grgaud@sprint.ca

FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks 
without knowledge, of things without parallel.
--- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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