>From: "Troy Elliott Eckhardt" <spamfilter@BizTaxPros.com>
> If God wrote or allowed to be written a book of mamby-pamby slop which may
> or may not be true, which might give us a hint of truth shrouded in poetic
> license and allegory, or which was not preserved until the present day, I
> want no part of him or his book
Bottom line: God, unless you act in conformity to MY expectations I will
close my mind and heart to you.
> Without faith in the inerrancy of the word of God (and the words of God, I
> add), there is no final authority - it's every man for himself, and good
> luck on your search for the narrow way that leads to life, if indeed it
> exists at all.
Bottom line: The fundamental reason for holding to the humanly-crafted
doctrine of biblical inerrancy is the equally human lust for religious
certainty (final authority). By idolizing the text as inerrant & certain, I
need not waste my life in searching for a more intimate awareness of God's
presence or a more profound understanding of what is Sacred.
> I would either accept the entire Bible as literally
> intended, or throw it in the trash.
Bottom line: If the Bible does not meet MY standards, I shall declare it
worthless.
Sorry, Troy. I won't go there.
Howard Van Till
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