Occasionally we get sidetracked onto other sometimes more
sometimes less related issues.
Most of the active posters, regardless of theology, do not find
the bible to be "inerrant" by any stretch of meaning of the word. Most
particularly in the sense that the tradition is usually stated as in
American Christian Fundamentalist circles, i.e., without error of any
kind in so much as a single word.
Since you quote Tolstoy in your AOL member profile to the effect
that "If we concede that human life can be governed by reason, the
possibility of life is destroyed." , it would seem that you would
probably be in disagreement with most of us.
Whether or not you can defend your beliefs against any
intelligent informed skeptics, is however another matter.
Should you decide to try, we'll be here.
Ciao.
-- Michael Fisher, ET1/SS USN ret., law student* * * He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine