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

I respect that.

However, I urge you to find the courage to locate a church that has homosexuals as part of their fellowship, and then engage in conversation with them, face to face. For most folks, the issue becomes a bit more difficult when you hear the wrestling with scripture, God, and their own heart many homosexual Christians have done.

Heh, yep! Really, though, I was tired of everyone telling each other how to be and do, and there was very little being and doing going on. I found in Methodism two things (actually much more, but two main things) - a place where disagreements are set within a dialog and there is space to disagree. Sure, we have Methodists who are closed to differences of opinion - some of them are conservative and some of them are liberal - but by and large, the Methodists are a live-and-let-live kind of folk. Second, I found a denomination that believes strongly in the message of the book of James, that faith without action is dead.

 

Me too.

 

There's always the CBF.

 

look at it like this. Adam didn't write Genesis. So whoever wrote it did so after Adam's time. Now admittedly God guided the person, but there's no way any human can truly understand how it was God created the heavens, earth, and everything in it. Because of that its translated as best mortal man can explain. That's not saying its wrong, but it not 100% accurate either. The point of the Bible is to understand it general teachings rather than its literal. Yes I know there are some definitive literal parts, but I'm talking about the whole.

 

Mostly Moses. And well said.

 

I'll go back to the original question. Can you believe the Bible is fallible and be a Christian? Yes.

The faith in the crucifixion, resurrection, and redemption by Jesus Christ is what makes one a Christian. Not everyone who reads or understand the bible will be a Christian and salvation is not dependent upon knowledge.

 

Very well said!

 

I considered it, but it was sorta of split that wasn't a split, and after all I went through (I was in the middle of Fuman Univ. splitting from the Baptists), it was time for a complete change.

That, and there was likely some providence in it, as I feel now as if I was born to be Methodist, or to put it another way, make a better Methodist than I do a Baptist.

I've got alot of friends in the CBF, though.

 

That's great.

Yeah, we're presently going Presbyterian for lack of convenient CBF churches.

 

How they chose what would go into the Bible and what would be left out has long been of considerable interest to me, and certainly relevant to the question of its fallibility.