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Question: Parts of the Bible are divinely-inspired, but not all of the Bible is literally true, in historical or scientific understanding or even moral teaching -- and that truth from God can come from other sources besides the Bible too... (see post)
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ShadowRocket
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« on: May 09, 2020, 04:07:12 PM »

I basically subscribe to the language used in the Vatican II document Dei verbum.

If you hold the position that God dictated the Bible word for word then you do have a problem when it comes to any of the scientific and historical claims  that aren't accurate, not to mention the problematic language regarding genocide and slavery.

But if you acknowledge that the writers were using the literary and cultural customs of their time, then I think most of the those problems become moot.

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