Hemant Mehta<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn addition to Biblical inerrantists ignoring the most obvious and reasonable explanation of what is in the Bible, they are actually ignoring the most Biblical explanation. The contradictions, discrepancies, and difficulties are there within the Bible, because human beings have put these texts with their differences into the collection we call the Bible. The only way to claim that the collection is inerrant is to allow one\u2019s doctrine about the Bible, brought into the picture from outside the Bible, to tell the Bible that it isn\u2019t allowed to say two different things, but can only mean one of them, or something complex that combines the two.<\/p>\n
Inerrancy is all about paying lip-service to the Bible, while actually working hard against it, in order to prevent what it actually says from undermining one\u2019s extrabiblical doctrine about what the Bible is.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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