Why do you believe the Bible to be inerrant?

[Dichotomy Girl]

Originally Posted by obriencp

This raises an interesting point. There are many people over the years that have spent a great deal of time digging through and studying scriptures, manuscripts, greek, etc. However, in some of our circles we are essentially taught to ignore what the smart people have said and to rely on a revelation. Some Apostolics/Pentecostals take pride in finding some truth that the educated have missed. I find that a dangerous place when people will ignore scholarly studies and eat up a catch phrase that some fly by night preacher came up with.

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying that you need to be something in the world for God to show you something. God will reveal himself to anyone seeking. What I'm saying is that it's a shame that we're so paranoid of being mislead that we'll easily discard what people have spent years studying. That seems to be a proud stance... proud of ignorance?

Truth will stand and we have to be more open to true professionals who devote their life to studying scripture. We don't have to reinvent the wheel everytime we get up to teach or preach.

I think it's so important that we learn not to be afraid of what we might find when we dig into things.

I once told my Atheist husband that if they came up with conclusive proof that the Bible was a fakery and all the historical info about Jesus was faulty, it wouldn't destroy my faith in Jesus, because my faith is not found (solely) in those things.