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Jason Gastrich

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Date Posted: 06/ 6/04 12:14am
In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "Inerrent literature?" on 06/ 4/04 12:08pm

>Obviously if something really is inerrant, then there
>can be no copyists' nor translators' differences, no
>chance of different versions existing. However they
>do, and therefore the current copies/versions of the
>collection of books, called bible, are by people, NOT
>by God.

When translating Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic into English, there are bound to be options with word choices. This is to be expected and doesn't tarnish the claim of inerrancy regarding the original autographs.

>..... Anyway, if something is supposed to be, and
>believed to be, REQUIRED by God, then how come
>so-called believers are free to choose which parts of
>the items supposed to be from God they will OBEY, and
>which ones they will IGNORE?

This is awfully generally. Would you care to be more specific?

If you are generally referring to hermeneutics, I have created a web page with some important, hermeneutical guidelines. You can see it here: http://jcsm.org/Education/hermeneutics.htm

God bless,
Jason

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Subject	Author	Date
Inerrancy???	QUITTNER	06/11/04 1:26pm
What about it? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 06/15/04 11:20pm Obeying a requirement? -- QUITTNER, 06/25/04 11:29am What about it? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 07/13/04 9:11pm Enforcing laws of religion -- QUITTNER, 07/16/04 2:03pm Skeptic's Annotated Bible - Corrected and Explained -- Jason Gastrich, 08/ 2/04 4:05am Subject: Enforcing laws of religion -- QUITTNER, 08/ 6/04 2:23pm