@The Angry Dybbuk
Inerrancy doesn't work that way.
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"The purpose of the bible is to lead people to god. If it had errors it wouldn't do that."
The people who believe it before they read it, or are trained to ignore the errors, like all fanatics.
Says a lot when the most flawed error ridden document to ever be written is treated as error proof says more for the gullible state of humanity than the actions of a supposedly a powerful being.
The KJV may be the most poetic of the English offerings, and I have no doubt its translators acted in earnest and with humility.
But the KJV has quite a few errors, the most well known being the mistranslation of the word for "murder" as "kill" in the Sixth Commandment. Six is the second of the so-calked 'man-ward' commandments. That's a high profile mistake.
While I’m theist (and given what I believe about myself, that's not going to change), I still think it's an incredible and foolhardy leap to assume an omnipotent creator would share any more than basic sentience and intelligence with Its creations. We humans are still half-savage animals. And yet, by divine action, just this once, translational errors (some of them more than a thousand years old) were corrected by these translators and them alone - despite themselves.
As I said before, "...show humility in the face of our nescience, and admit that we humans and our works are always going to be fallible."
At this stage in our evolution, the best we could do with even a tiny fraction of the omniscience you believe the creator shared with those translators is to devise new ways to brutalise and slaughter each other.
The purpose of the bible is to lead people to god. If it had errors it wouldn't do that
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived
-Isaac Asimov
My hardcore Atheist father caught me reading a Bible when I was in my teens. His reaction? 'You keep reading, son!' and he didn't prevent me from doing so or discourage me in any way.
Thank you dad & Isaac, it was the best education I ever received.
It was by reading the Bible: Properly, which led me to Atheism. In spite of myself, the particular Bible I read was the KJV. And in hindsight, you should have had the foresight to realise that it is the ultimate contradiction, and therefore ALL of it is one big error, OP. Why?
For the sake of your entire 'Belie fs', better not click on this link, if you know what's good for you.
For that exact same reason, no doubt these Republicans in the US - and no doubt Bible-believing Christians - use versions that appeared since the KJV:
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Question: Are they wrong in their choice of Bible being anything else but the KJV...?!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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