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inerrant According to Jewish tradition, scripture is inerrant, though what counts as scripture and what is meant by inerrant are open to question. Christian tradition follows Judaism’s lead, declaring scripture to be inerrant without agreeing on which books are scripture or what it means for them to be inerrant. Originally, being inerrant meant pretty much what you think it means: not being in error. The holy spirit had a special role of inspiring human “authors” to write just such and so, and for human church leaders to make all the right decisions in deciding which books and which versions of them would be scripture. And it was taken as fact. When medieval philosophers could pretty much prove that most of the motion of the heavenly bodies resulted from the daily spin of the earth around its axis, they still had to sign on to the scriptural doctrine that the earth doesn’t move. Events such as the tower of babel, where the LORD confused humanity’s languages, and the great flood, in which the LORD obliterated 99.9% of life on earth, were taken as historical events. But as the natural sciences, archeology, and scriptural analysis advanced, the errors and contradictions in the bible became apparent. The concept of biblical inerrancy became rather more nuanced, with large chunks of scripture, such as the garden of eden, given a pass. Bible interpreters explained that no one was expected to take that stuff literally. In 1965 as part of Vatican II, the Roman catholic church, developed a new definition of inerrancy, which is basically the kind of inerrancy that isn’t disproved by errors. It’s a handy sort of inerrancy to have because their previous sort of inerrancy was vulnerable to being convicted of error. The holy spirit, it seems, only guarantees as inerrant those parts of the bible that it desired to include for salvation. Anything that might get proven wrong can therefore be categorized as not necessary to salvation, leaving the stuff that hasn’t been proved wrong as still spotlessly inerrant.
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contents table of contents you're already looking at it introduction for the inquisitive reader biographical overview who he was and wasn't
afterlife not Jesus' concern animal sacrifice bloodless religion apocalypse did Jesus preach hellfire? baptism sin wash for Jesus and others beatitudes Jesus' words and others' words beloved disciple witness for the un-gospel bible scripture old and new bishop the unjesus body focus on the physical Buddha Jesus' close kin charity key Christian virtue and legacy of Jesus The Da Vinci Code secret (and false) messages divorce women's status dreams convenient literary device Elijah Jewish prophet with his own second coming equality ancient source of modern egalitarianism exorcist Jesus and demons failure reinterpreting Jesus as a failure faith from trust to blind belief father Jesus on titles of honor Francis of Assisi the most Christlike Christian Gandhi the 20th century's most Christly holy man Galilee Jesus' inauspicious homeland gentiles Jesus' inadvertent audience god how Jesus became god golden rule key to Jesus' success gospels competing accounts heaven from sky to spiritual home hell revenge fantasy humanism Jesus' legacy inerrant Christian treatment of scripture Thomas Jefferson ethics of Jesus Jewish guilt Christian libel John's gospel the un-gospel John the baptist, see John the washer John the washer Jesus' apocalyptic mentor Judaism libeled religion of Jesus kingdom of god what Jesus promised Lao Tzu poet of the cosmic way logos jesus as the word of god C. S. Lewis famous, flawed trilemma little drummer boy Luke beats Matthew logos Jesus as the divine word LORD Yahweh transitioning to the one god of all Luke's gospel the all-around best gospel Mark's gospel the gospel that lost its point Mary of Magdala women, visions, and sex massacre of the innocents bloodshed starts early Matthew's gospel best gospel for church reading Mormon, see Joseph Smith Moses Jewish lawgiver Muhammad a prophet who got it right mystery Orpheus and transubstantiation oppression origin of Jesus' compassion The Passion of the Christ Luke as buzzkill Paul revealer of the revealer private and public public Jesus and secret Christ relativism the secret power of the golden rule sacrifice Jesus' death and Christian sacrament Albert Schweitzer Jesus as a failure sheol dark pit of death show Jesus' deeds as put-ons slavery abolished by Jesus' efforts Joseph Smith flesh-and-blood Jesus Socrates secular Jesus son of god on close terms with the man upstairs soul, see body synoptics three gospels that agree temple center of Jewish religion trinity unifying and divisive doctrinre vision, see dreams Yahweh, see LORD Zoroaster Persian dualistic holy man
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