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I do agree with the Nicene Creed.

Whether "human life begins at conception" is hotly debated, and I hope we don't stray from the OP by debating it here.

Indeed. In Matt. 28:19 and in Luke 24:47, Christ reportedly commissions his apostles to spread the gospel to “all the nations.” The Greek word ethnē translated as “nations” in these verses surely includes Gentiles―making it a complete reversal of Christ’s earlier instruction to the apostles to...

I have both faith and hope in my Bible, because (1) I neither expect nor care about the truth or falsity of irrelevant details that do not matter to the message of the Bible, and (2) I reject the notion that human error as to those details calls the entire message of the Bible into question...

I read it quite some time ago, and was underwhelmed. It distinguishes between the "autographic text of Scripture" and "copies or translations of Scripture," and notes that the latter may not be inerrant. That makes it rather impractical, since all of us are reading "copies or translations" and...

I enjoy watching these debates over whether the Bible is the Word of God unfold. And I roll my eyes each time the argument relies on ipse dixit. Just once, I would love to see a entire thread on this topic forego any quotes from the Bible declaring itself to be the word of God. Just once, no...

Perhaps @Eternally Grateful should chew on this syllogism for a while: Major Premise: God is not the author of confusion. (1 Cor. 14:33) Minor Premise: The Bible is confusing. Conclusion: God is not the author of the Bible. Anyone want to wager on which premise gets rejected?

Seriously? What context explains whether the Last Supper was a Passover meal (Mark 14:12, Mark 14:16-17, Matthew 26:17, Matthew 26:19-20, Luke 22:7–9, Luke 22:13-14), or was eaten the day before Passover (John 13:1, John 18:28, John 19:14)? What context explains whether Judas hanged himself...

I agree that He had a hand in it. But the hand that held the pen was man's, not God's. And it is that human element which is responsible for the contradictions we see in the Bible. Why downplay that human element?

The issue here is what it means for scripture to be "God breathed Or inspired by God." You say it is odd "for God to claim this." Do you see what you've just done? You have ASSUMED the thing to be proven!!! You have ASSUMED that in some fashion God, not Paul, wrote this to Timothy!!!

As contrasted with "dead in the flesh." (Although one can be both simultaneously.)

This casts the fruit of the tree of life as an antidote to cell deterioration, one which became a second forbidden fruit only after A&E partook of the first. We aren't told whether A&E ate from it prior to the Fall. If they did, its effects weren't permanent -- meaning it would have to be...

But for all that appears, only John saw THIS event. So your analysis, while astute, doesn't apply to the raising of Lazarus.

Done. No change . . .

Almost daily.

Same answer. The law is made for everyone, the righteous included.

I have to disagree with Paul here. The law was made for everyone. The righteous man is simply the one who keeps the law. (The lawless and disobedient obviously don't.) To say that a law-keeper doesn't need the law is wrong; he needs it to guide his choices, even if he always makes those...

John 11 recounts the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. As Jesus's miracles go, this one was a BIggie! John tells us that it was the real impetus for Jewish defections to the Jesus camp, for according to John 12:11 “it was on account of him that many of the Jews were deserting and...

Biblical inconsistencies come in two basic types. Some passages are literally consistent, i.e., they do not contradict each other – but they present contradictory pictures of God or of His commands. (Let’s call these theologically inconsistent passages.) Others are literally inconsistent, giving...

How so? Have I not been consistent?