Biblical literalists and literalisms

Originally posted by @josephw
I think you should worry about the eraser.

Is the writing implement allegorical?

Originally posted by @sonship

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Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. —2 Kings 24:8

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem… —2 Chronicles 36:9

Good one. I don't know. It could be the result of a scribal copying error.

Is there a [b]major tenet of the Christian faith that hinges on the discrepancy ?[/b]

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Good one. I don't know. It could be the result of a scribal copying error.

Is there a major tenet of the Christian faith that hinges on the discrepancy ?

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Is "the Bible is the inerrant Word of God" a major tenet of the Christian faith?

Originally posted by @js357

Is "the Bible is the inerrant Word of God" a major tenet of the Christian faith?

There may be an ultra-conservative school of thought of Inerrancy which would deny copyist errors among the thousands of extent copies of the OT and NT Scriptures. I have never been of that opinion.

I learned the subject from a book "A General Introduction to the Bible" by Giesler and Nix, which I would still recommend to anyone today.

Discussion of various positions on Innerancy, Insperation, Infallibility were discussed in detail. I would now have to return to that volume to see some things.

I do remember that it convincingly, to me, argued against two extremes on either side of the debate - far left and far right, ie. extreme liberal opinions verses extreme conservative schools.

I have never had a major problem with the recognition that among the thousands of copies of biblical texts from antiquity it is rather obvious that some discrepancies in copying are noticed.

Not a large percent of them are of any consequence to major themes of the Bible.

Did you watch the debate between Dr. Bart Erhman and Dr. James White on this ? Its worth your while IMO.

- sonship

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I'm thinking how did Adam and Eve eat the fruit if it wasn't literally a fruit? How do you figuratively eat something? How do you explain our sinful nature if the fall of man was not literal?

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You are wrong.

You are delicately trying to evade Bible truth, contradiction and literalism.

The truth is.....if Jonah didn't survive in a fish, then the Noah story could be made up. Jesus could be made up.

You either believe ALL of it, or NONE of it!!