Is Biblical Inerrancy a House of Cards?
I run into wonderful Christian people all the time who basically subscribe to this belief about the Bible: "God inspired humans to write down exactly what God wanted them to write. Therefore everything in the Bible, from Genesis to the Revelation, is God-breathed. Since God is perfect, what he does is perfect, so the Bible is without error in everything it speaks of." Although not a technical definition, this is the basic idea that is meant by the term "Biblical inerrancy". This foundational belief leads to the next one: "Good Christians believe everything the Bible says and never doubt it, regardless of what modern scholarship and science discovers. If there is a discrepancy between something in modern scholarship or science and the words of the Bible, good Christians will always hold to the Bible teaching and reject or doubt the modern discoveries." Good, faithful people are taught that there are no discrepancies or contradictions in the scrip