All of the Bible is divinely inspired and all of it is true. Not all of it is literal, but all of it is true.
That is demonstrably false. There are specific claims made in the bible that are statements of 'truth' (if you believe it is all true) that have no other value, either non literal or metaphorical and therefore have to stand as false.
To take a very simple example, Leviticus 11 20:23 'All flying insects that
walk on all fours are to be detestable to you.' That is just false. It has no other value than as a statement of fact. The Bible also gets the value of pi wrong.
If there is no other value to 'false' statements (like say wiping out the Caananites, who weren't actually wiped out, or the entirety of Matthew 27: 50-53 which is a historical claim to which there is no evidence but still works as a statement of 'look how immense an act this was') then those statements are just false because they cannot stand on their own and don't need laborious (and literalists really really do this) explanations as to
why ackshually.
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