Quote of the Day, By sir_russ
Theologians take an awful lot of swings. I'm not sure if they ever put wood on the ball, though. (To use the baseball metaphor.) That, I question the use of "excel" when it's...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 11 minutes ago
They rarely if ever grasp the fact their particular doctrine isn't based on any more than that of the sect they dislike most.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 19 minutes ago
No discovery of science has ever pointed to the truth of any religious doctrine.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 21 minutes ago
What Leo XIII says is very close to what Chicago says. Errors in the Bible, if they exist, must have been introduced by scribal copyists!
And this wasn't supposed to...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 23 minutes ago
The question I'm struggling with, is how Turek knows which is which?
I'd guess he channels Justice Stewart Potter's
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 37 minutes ago
Hopeful Theism used to be an agnostic, however these days he seems to have converted to some sort of High-Church Christianity; possibly Roman Catholicism. I cannot understand this...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
I was struck by the contrast between whatever this is, vs. science:
Frank Turek has an interesting way of defining inerrancy: when the Bible gets something right, then it “affirms” this...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 hour ago
Avalos would employ the analogy of his own College Lectures so as to disprove the idea that a discrete set of “original manuscripts” existed.
A great analogy, which...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 2 hours ago
David Pallmann: Well I don't think it is based solely on that. It's also based on the evidence for that divinity of the person to whom she gave birth. It would be one thing if...
Debunking Christianity: "David Hume and the Logical Case Against Miracles" is Excellent! · 2 hours ago
No sense of humor.
I wonder what they'd have made of Kevin Bridges?
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providentissimus_Deus What Leo XIII says is very close to what Chicago says. Errors in the Bible, if...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0102/1187296-eamon-martin-rte/
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
Cheers for that matey!
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
https://valerietarico.com/2014/12/16/its-not-rape-if-hes-a-god/
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 3 hours ago
Dei Verbum decreed that
"Therefore, since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 4 hours ago
Yahweh is a bastard, no wonder Asherah dumped him.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 4 hours ago
The amazing thing is that all the 40K variations of Christerhood are the real one - just ask their member if theirs is false and see what they say/
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 4 hours ago
For some reason, your first comment has been removed. And since the reply was constructed already, I'll post it here:-
As Dan Barker points out, Yahweh promises to ravish, i.e....
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 4 hours ago
Of course, since Vatican 2, the Roman Catholic Church has relaxed its position on inerrancy, somewhat.
They've been fudging stuff from the get-go. But in recent...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 5 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.’
That is a recipe for insanity!...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 5 hours ago
Increasing knowledge through the sciences, and the march of time, is the undoing of Buybull inerrancy. What was, now isn't. When the Buybull was read by the powers that be, as asserting the...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 5 hours ago
Theologians excel at post hoc rationalizations.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 6 hours ago
Even without getting into the weeds debating the minutia of the Bible, I think the staggering number of Christian sects pretty well blows the concept of inerrancy out of the water.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 6 hours ago
I was a traditionalist Catholic, and I think that Leo XIII gave a definition of inerrancy very close to that of the Chicago Statement in Providentissimus Deus. Of course, since Vatican 2,...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 7 hours ago
If Hopeful Theism converted to the RCs, then HT can run with pretty much any definition of inerrancy that can be construed as consistent with the RCs' "for the sake of our salvation"...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 7 hours ago