This is not what any believer would claim. This is true unbeliever nonsense.
Yes, I'm an "unbeliever" in regards to the traditional Abrahamic concepts of God, but there are myriads of both Jewish and Christian scholars who are not literalists but who do practice their faith regularly.
If you don't see that this is not an acceptance of scripture as inspired by God, and understand how Jesus accepted the historicity of the Biblical accounts - then you do not understand what it is to believe in God and his Inspired Word. The ones you describe here are not believers but Bible critics.
The question of "divine inspiration" is just that-- a question, according to a great many scholars. IOW, in which way and to what extent are the scriptures inspired? Opinions vary.
The problem with Bible critics is that they do not think God capable of communicating for real with people or do anything in our world. They are disapproved ones without faith.
I don't believe in idolatry, and treating the Bible as if is in some way perfect is pretty much just that. I read the Bible literally every day of the week, but I simply cannot and will not make any claim that it is 100% divinely inspired, especially since there's literally no way of knowing with any degree of certainty.
And how could you possibly know to what extent the Bible is divinely inspired? Were you there when it was written? You make accusations of those who question the degree of inspiration the Bible has, and yet I guarantee you that you cannot provide one shred of evidence to support your claim.
But worse than that is the degree that you go to claim that people who don't agree with you are "unbelievers". You are judging people and ignoring what Jesus said in terms of "judge ye not" and Paul saying that he wouldn't even judge himself.
I find such judgmentalism to be morally deplorable, therefore our conversation has just come to a halt because, if you are so willing to ignore what Jesus and Paul supposedly said according to the Biblical accounts, then why should I continue?
The litmus test for a Christian has long been what John 3[16] says, and that verse doesn't say anything about having to believe in a literal of the Bible, especially since the canon of the Bible had not even been chosen at that time. So, apparently you also don't believe in that verse as well, and yet you claim to be a literalist who thinks the entire Bible is totally "divinely inspired".
Maybe stop judging others and we can have a serious conversation some day, but for the time being at least, I'm finished.
