Till on Inerrancy
Bryce Anderson bryce_anderson@yahoo.com
Sun, 1 Nov 1998 12:57:50 -0800 (PST) (00909975470, 19981101205750.6356.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com)
JOE
> 1. Do the believers on our list insist that every word in the bible
was
> chosen by God?
BRYCE
<tongue in cheek>Joe, don't you realize that true inerrancy can
only be found in the original manuscripts? I have complete confidence
that when (in the Lord's due time) these manuscripts are dug up, they
will contain no errors, ambiguities, incorrect uses of grammar, or
anything else that would cause one to doubt that it was the message of
an all-knowing Author.
It should be recognized that, though God allowed the authors some
choice in the way His divine concepts were expressed, there is no word
in the original manuscripts that God does not want there. God would
never allow filtration through a human author to interfere at all with
the clarity of his message. Human translators, on the other hand,
were hung out to dry (for what purpose, God himself only knows, but he
must have had a really good reason.</tongue in cheek>
This is just my interpretation of the inerrantist "party line."
It is my personal belief that it is accurate (though I doubt anyone on
their side would phrase it quite that way).
JOE
> If they do not hold to this view, and errantists the accept this
lesser
> standard, then the errantists will have to allow them to infer
information and
> approximate values if there is contextual support.
BRYCE
Again, is there any "contextual support" for your assertion that
it could not have been thirty cubits around and ten cubits across,
aside from the fact that the object (if we consider this a literal and
exact description) cannot exist?
==
Bryce Anderson
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