The point I’m trying to make is...that everyone, whether they are aware of it or not, uses the Bible selectively. Link.This was said in an interview about his new book God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says.
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And on second thought, I'm going to question Carl Sagan's characterization of science as "far from" a perfect instrument of knowledge. Perhaps there's a bit of equivocating...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 23 minutes ago
But weren't the Nazis established by God?
The Nazis had at least the next-best thing, the Pope's endorsement!
Also Revelation 21:8 says...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
Yes, Turek is skipping a few (dozen, hundred, thousands) of intermediate steps between "whatever the guy says" and what eventually trickles down to Turek. Would Turek even be able to...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
Also see my other comment in this thread (link) about preregistration in...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
Licona does the dishonest two-step.
He's the TACO man of Christer apologetics.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
That's the problem with inerrancy, it's ridiculous on the face of it. So the fudging commences and caveats put in place. But that adds to the problem. Either it's all in inerrancy,...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
What Licona says above is kinda like a retreat from key Protestant doctrines such as sōlā scrīptūrā, the Perspicuity of Scripture, and the Sufficiency of...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 2 hours ago
‘Devout readers who come across the texts described by Barker and Wells—and who are not alarmed or offended—must have their critical thinking skills turned off.’
Must have...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 2 hours ago
Good stuff, David. Really, I think serious conservative Christians don't have any game except to fall back on genre. Mark invented a new genre, the Gospel, and the rules of that genre are the...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 3 hours ago
The angel's expression is like "God, what a dumbass."
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 3 hours ago
a) Jesus never expressed or implied his followers' salvation or sanctification depended on them affirming that inerrancy is limited to the original manuscripts
Hell,...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
Excellent article at the link. Russell went a wee bit too heavy with his, "the atheist, that we can know there is not." Most atheists I'm aware of, would not make said assertion....
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
My position is that I claim to know for a fact that the god of Classical theism does not exist.
A lot of the omni attributes contradict the existence of the God of...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 4 hours ago
Speaking of Bertrand Russell and Agnosticism see this disambiguation:
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 4 hours ago
The problem I have about agnostics is, they're liars. Even if they don't mean to be. It's a cop-out. Agnostic (from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) 'without' and γνῶσις (gnōsis)...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 5 hours ago
In an update, I have liked to another video of Licona’s attempting to rethink inerrancy in a post-hoc fashion. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 5 hours ago
I have added another video of Licona’s attempting to rethink inerrancy in a post-hoc fashion. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 5 hours ago
That raises an interesting question: Given that the local pastor has a comfortable life and income doing the church-thing, what fool thinks the pastor, should he become an atheist,...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 6 hours ago
Only Believe! And we can cite Alvin Plantinga that belief in the Calvinist God is a belief that is "properly basic." /s
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 6 hours ago
Indeed, and one more: Did nobody ever tell inerrantists that the techniques used in the NT are characteristic of crafted literature rather than raw historical chronicle?
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 9 hours ago
I would argue that in light of passages like Hosea 13:16, Isaiah 10 and 13:15-17, Turek's notion that god doesn't want powerful corrupt pagan leaders to engage in mass slaughter of the...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 11 hours ago
‘I just have a personal policy. If somebody predicts and accomplishes His own resurrection from the dead, I just trust whatever the guy says.’
What Turek overlooks is that...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 11 hours ago
The reply from apologists like Frank Turek is that the reason God does not do more to correct people's errant views of Christianity is because of the ripple-effect: god knows that by allowing...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 12 hours ago
If you want to kick an inerrantist's ass real good, demand from them an error or contradiction in the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha or the Dead Sea Scrolls. Then ask them how likely the...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 12 hours ago
That conservative Christians and fundamentalists are Pharisees is clear from a) Jesus never expressed or implied his followers' salvation or sanctification depended on them affirming that...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 13 hours ago