Simple question to Inerrantists

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Jason:

I AM errant. So no, I'm not certain. I'm not certain of anything 100%. Why?
Because I've never died. 

People on this list have studied the Bible. They've studied it to the bone.
Why then don't they come to God? Because they see errors. But what errors
are those? Are they errors in the Bible or errors in the Bible? Most of you
have been there and done that. I am pretty sure that you have come across
someone that has given you a real challenge that you COULD NOT answer to.
Would you ever admit to that? Faith is the evidence of things unseen. You
can see the Bible. I have faith in the power behind it. Without God, the
Bible is just a book with a bunch of letters in it....just like any other.
So you have to take God with the Bible or you have to forget it.

GREG

None of us are certain 100%, that is why analyzing everything in detail is
so important in determining truth. I am sure you can appreciate that. The
fact that the Bible demonstrably contains hundreds if not over 2000 +
errors, contradictions, proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the Bible is
not what it claims itself to be.

You may quibble over every contradiction that can be discussed, and there
are some that can be removed. However, the majority of them can't be solved
and this is a problem.

And Even if everyone of them can be solved, this doesn't in any way prove
that the Bible is the word of God. There are many thousands of books which
are inerrant yet are not the word of God. Having historical, scientific,
social, logic truths in a book doesn't in any way prove its from a divine
author.

So don't think that because we see errors we see that the Bible isn't the
word of God. That is just the tip of the iceberg. It may be the easiest way
to determine the falsehood of the claims, but not the only one. Reason,
logic, common sense, and external evidences play a role too.

Faith has its purpose but when does faith become a problem? When we have to
put faith in the place of common sense, logic, reason, and the evidence,
then doesn't faith become a problem? Doesn't faith become an excuse for
ignorance? When one is unwilling to accept evidences which go against that
faith, or unable to show evidence for that faith, you must surly be able to
see the logic in rejecting it.

Your reasoning for accepting the Bible is authored by God is not very
reasonable. The same reason can be used to accept other religious books too.
Should we believe the Koran because Muslims see its power, its authority?
Should we believe the Book of Mormon because the Mormon's see its power, its
authority? Shouldn't a book which is supposedly authored by God stand out
from all the rest, and shouldn't all those "stand out" issues be verified,
justified, and provable? 

One of the stand out issues the Christian fundamentalists share, is that the
Bible is inerrant. We feel that this supposition is quite frankly,
ridiculous. And this errancy list is here not to prove errancy, but to show
that the claims to inerrancy are unreasonable.

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