Is the Bible true?I want to open this post up for a discussion on how you view the scriptures. Here are some starter questions.

  • Which books do you allow and why?
  • Were the authors trying to write scripture?
  • Do you think the scriptures are infallible?
  • Do you think the scriptures are inspired?
  • Do you think the scriptures are inerrant?
  • Is there a difference between inerrant/inspired/infallible?
  • Are all seemingly historical accounts supposed to be taken at literally as possible?
  • Can some of the seeminly historical accounts be figurative in some fashion and the scripture still be inerrant, inspired, and infallible?

Here are my short answers to get the conversation started.

  • Protestant Bible
  • Some were, some weren’t – but they all did.
  • Yes.
  • Yes.
  • No. See the Gospels’ accounts of Jesus’s arrest and trial and see John’s narrative vs the Synoptics.
  • Not entierly.
  • Yes.