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The Nearly Inspired Version? never...

Agreed. "At the beginning of God's creation of the heavens and the earth..."

As I read it, the descendants of Canaan were cursed because he raped his granddaddy...

Yep, that's the one single verse that is used to prop up inerrancy. Which is more likely - that our understanding of this one verse is imperfect, or that the multiple chapters that teach something different are to blame? I literally just gave 2 verses where he says EXACTLY that, and then...

A quick search didn't turn it up for me. Care to point it out?

That's an elegant explaining away of what seems to be the plain meaning of those 2 verses. But it isn't just those 2 verses that discard genealogies - they're simply the clearest statements. If we go to John 8-10, we have Jesus' own teachings on the subject... and the crux of them is that we...

Those verses are about the the special resurrection for martyrs. Most of us won't become martyrs.

I believe in revelation, but it doesn't make the Bible superfluous. It acts as a sort of answer sheet or checksum. You got a revelation? Let's check that against the answer key... because there's a lot more questionable 'revelations' than real ones.

It's kind of crazy to me how far some people go with inerrancy. Even the New Testament tells us to ignore the genealogies... if Paul didn't believe them, why are modern churches going to bat for them? Titus 3:9 Avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the...

It seems like some pious Rabbi did the math, realized that it added up so that he lived through the flood, and decided to make a... correction? o_O

The verse contains a Hebrew parallelism. We can match the words in the first half to those in the second half to get more precise meaning: Thy word is true from the beginning: every one of thy righteous judgments [endureth] for ever. רֹאשׁ and עוֹלָם are actually opposing bookends - the...

Wait - Paul or Peter? The topic says Paul but the quote is Peter. The two seem very different to me. Peter seems like a man's man, and Paul is... um... the incel apostle?

That's a tough one. My own father's style of parenting might best be described as 'benevolent neglect.' When I was a kid, he worked 60-80 hours a week. There was always food on the table, and I attended a pretty nice private school (hillbillies like us don't trust government-provided...

It doesn't actually use the word global... it says it covered the land and all the mountains. But from whose perspective? God's or Noah's? The former is global and the latter isn't.

The question was whether it was GLOBAL, not literal

The flood story has a lot to do with the idea of BIRTH or re-birth. The time frames may have been adjusted to reflect the idea of gestation.

In many old manuscripts, the numbers in the genealogies are different, and add up so that he lived past the flood.

Have you ever attended a mass? Traditional Catholic churches don't have sermons, they have homilies. Which is to say that rather than giving a talk and supporting their points with verses, instead they READ a passage of Scripture and then give short comments about it. It's virtually...

Interesting... I always thought it referred to Zechariah the father of John the Baptist. TIL

It doesn't matter, because the church is the one that INTERPRETS Scripture, and the interpreting is about 90% of it