JerryL
Well-Known Member
Incomplatable accounts which establish at least one account as wrong.You didn't get what I was saying. Quite twisting my words. I said that differing books containing history within the Bible contain slightly differing accounts.
I lend a weight of credence based on consensus with disparant sources. I do believe, for example, the Biblical claim that Judea was occupied and run by the Romans in the time of the NT.Do you discredit any American history writers just because they disagree about minor points with British ones?
Really? What accuracy does it claim for itself? In what passage? I thought the entire thing was "God breathed".No. The truth behind the Bible is theological truth. Now, the books of the Bible may certainly be trusted as historically accurate on a macro scale, but to pinpoint
exactly how many troups a person has or the color of one person's robe is demanding of the text a level of acute accuracy that it does not claim for itself.
You agree that there are inaccuracies in the Bible. We know it's not a perfect text. Now let's see your support for what you claim to be accurate, to actually be accurate.
The BIble says that Jesus's robe was Purple. It also says the same robe was scarlet. One of those accounts is wrong. Since both are in the Bible, the Bible is wrong. It's pretty simple.Bible is not wrong, it is simply that two authors writing down historical information put down two slightly varying accounts.
Both stories match that Jesus wore a robe, though at least one is wrong in describing it. It's possible both are wrong in there being one at all.The point is in all of the instances you mentioned above that the larger story be told, not all of its minute details. Judas killed himself at Akel Dama, regardless of method; Jesus wore a robe, regardless of color.
That's your problem. Since they are functionally same-source (recall that most of the gospels were written by non-witnesses), while I can prove that somethings are wrong, we cannot prove that the others are right.
We can, however, see that the Bible itself is not inerrant because it contains errors. Not "God breathed" after all.