Saturday, April 27, 2013

Why Biblical Inerrancy Makes No Sense


This is basically how biblical inerrancy sounds to me: the bible is what we have, and since it's impossible god would have wanted us to have a inaccurate book about him, the bible must be perfect and free of any errors!

This line of "reasoning" is what millions of Christians throughout history have used to justify their belief that the bible is a perfect and inerrant piece of work. It's about as dubious as the "ass backwards" logic of the fine tuning argument. Some Christians seem to think that if they can show one part of the bible to be more probably true than not, then it means that the whole entire bible can be taken as truth. Usually this is done with the resurrection. But calculating the resurrection as more probably true than not (which is problematic on its own) does not logically follow that the entire bible is therefore completely true.

There may be a few bits of truth here and there in the bible, but none of them on their own should lead to a conclusion that the entire bible is true. Every truth claim in the bible needs to be taken on a case-by-case basis, and the probability of any one part being true should not necessarily bare any weight on any other part. That being said, biblical inerrancy is intellectually bankrupt, especially in light of the fact that many stories in the bible are full on contradictions, and are scientifically and historically inaccurate.

See a list here of the numerous biblical contradictions from evilbible,com

5 comments:

  1. yes, and it's almost funny how most theists don't even know how the bible was put together or how Christianity spread in the 1st and second centuries.

    The canonization, the catholic (political) church history and what methods were used to decide what was "in" and what was "out" they seem to be ignorant of. They (theists) simply accept that it came to be and it is exactly how god wanted it....
    I struggled with this when I read the verse about god throwing babies up against rocks.

    Theists/apologists take portions of scripture that are disgusting and try to fabricate what god's intended "lesson" to us was through that despicable story (genocide of the Canaanites for example) instead of seeing it as it is : a despicable story of cruelty...
    Believers, start out with "the bible is true" and make everything else in their
    worldview fit that conclusion. Christians are taught to revere the bible as the
    "word of God" even against their own intellect! Sadly most follow like sheep being led to a slaughter.

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    1. Yes. It's as if most Christians believe that the completed bible was descended from heaven carried by an angel and that every word in it is god's literal will.

      I once asked a Christian, that if Jesus really was the son of god, why couldn't he just have written his own New Testament down first hand so that we'd know his exact words and not have to rely on contradictory translations from hundreds of years later? And why couldn't Jesus just have used his miraculous powers to make thousands of copies of his book in all languages so that there'd be no confusion as to his will? These books themselves would be the physical "miracle"?

      He said that the miracle of Jesus is that he did NOT write anything and was still followed. Oh boy. (facepalm)

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  2. Now in stores: "The newest testament" by Jesus Christ. lol

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  3. Thanks but no thanks.I didn't quote the bible in this post, but when I do it is only as a reference point to show how factually incorrect and contradictory it is.

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