Can you be a Christian & not accept that the Bible is COMPLETELY INFALLIBLE?

I do not believe that God would allow it to be wrong. I believe he guided Moses when he wrote Genesis. I believe that any apparent errors are the result of our incomplete understanding of the text.

Certain things were meant for certain time frames but other were not. One of the key issues that is often debated and got this thread started in the homosexual issue. The bible clearly states in the new testament that it is a sin. I am not willing to accept that the bible is wrong on something like that. To me when you start excluding parts of the bible it is usually done because you do not like the part you are choosing to ignore not necessarily because it has less merit.

 

I have struggled with this concept in the past and I wonder how you see it. If God would not allow it to be wrong, would he then not have also insured that it be misinterpretable?

 

I get where you're coming from on all that, but the problem is, based on the Bible, you're OK with genocide and having multiple wives. There's all kinds of stuff the Hebrews did 'in God's name' that just don't fly.

 

That is one of those things I was talking about that you have to interpret correctly. God did tell the jews to do things like that in the old testament. God had his reasons for doing so and I do not pretend to know what they were. That was a different dispensation and can not be used to justify those things today. The whole dynamic changed when Jesus came on the scene.

 

That is a good point. I think the reason if can be misinterpreted involves free will. God still allows man to have free will. That means man can misinterpret things. I do believe that if a man seeks God and studies the scripture with a sincere heart he will get it right. Those who use the bible to justify evil deeds choose to do so they are not led to that conclusion through sincere study.

Secondly, the story of salvation is pretty commonly accepted by almost all branches of christianity.

 

Yes, like what God is telling him to write down.

Unless he happens to disagree with you, then he's wrong.


Not trying to drive everything you say into the ground, and I appreciate your dedication to your faith and to the scripture, but these last two things you've said seem to contradict earlier statements.

 

Yet in the Gospels the evils of wealth are mentioned by Christ much more than the sin of homosexuality (which if I'm not mistaken is not mentioned until the epistles) yet I don't see many of us too cautious about that. The message of the Gospel is that Christ can redeem sinners. I don't believe there is a priority of sins ever mentioned in the Gospel.

 

Only problem is Moses didn't write Genesis.

 

Ummmmmmmmmmmm, Moses wrote the first 5 books of the Bible (Genesis to Deuteronomy . . . aka The Pentateuch). Exodus > Deuteronomy was what Moses experienced personally and wrote down; Genesis was what God told him to write down from the beginning of the World up to the Death of Joseph.

 

Moses did not write all of Genesis.