Historical Errors

Gottle_of_Geer · Sep 27, 2008

Contarini said:
Because it was written by humans (under divine inspiration).

Yes. If there were no errors it would indicate that the Bible was simply dictated by God, and that would reflect a very different pattern of divine interaction with humans than the one we find in reality. The “errors” are a very good thing. Just as it’s a good thing that (as a Muslim pointed out to me in a conversation many years ago) in the Christian view God went to the bathroom.

Edwin

If the Bible is inerrant, then the sort of difference you mention gives us an excellent example of the doctrine of “the unnatural God” (for which, see K. E. Kirk’s Bampton Lectures for 1928).

IMO, the errors are a form of humility - God speaks amid error, just as He was man among sinful men.

Historical Errors

Gottle_of_Geer

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If the Bible is inerrant, then the sort of difference you mention gives us an excellent example of the doctrine of “the unnatural God” (for which, see K. E. Kirk’s Bampton Lectures for 1928).​

If the Bible is inerrant, then the sort of difference you mention gives us an excellent example of the doctrine of “the unnatural God” (for which, see K. E. Kirk’s Bampton Lectures for 1928).