Do you agree with this?

@BritishFailedAesthetic Boy, are we going to have some fun conversations.

@LordShadowfire I think we need some clarifications- I'm not one of your Christian nationalists you get in the States.

So I'm not saying laws- just warning people what God says.

@BritishFailedAesthetic No, I'm talking about the alleged inerrancy of the Bible.

@LordShadowfire Bart Ehrman, Holy Koolaid, they all have people that can answer them, they are not the authority on scripture.

@BritishFailedAesthetic look, all I'm saying is, if you would admit that the Bible is just humans attempting to put together a comprehensive book that fails in places, there would be no argument.

@LordShadowfire Except that's not the case.

@BritishFailedAesthetic Oh, really. So bats are a type of bird? Grasshoppers have four legs? These are just examples right off the top of my head. I can go all day.

@LordShadowfire The Bible is not a science textbook- that was the ancient Hebrew casual classification.

And look at the Hebrew too.

@BritishFailedAesthetic So you admit the Bible contains errors. Good. We're making progress.

@LordShadowfire It was a casual classification system, not defacto science, nor did it intend to be a Encyclopedia Britannica guide to species.

@BritishFailedAesthetic Okay, in the interest of what seems to be a fairly decent relationship between us, I'm going to warn you right now. I've been doing this for a number of years, and I've got much more material to work with. If at any time you feel like this is personal, just know that it isn't. Agreed?

@LordShadowfire Oh yeah, I know you're not personally insulting me.

@BritishFailedAesthetic Cool. So let's talk about the fact that in Genesis, it says that God created the plants before he created sunlight. If you believe that on a literal level, then you believe God did something horribly inefficient. Because after creating the plants, he would have to constantly provide artificial sunlight for them until he finally just made the sun. So either God did something inefficient and honestly stuріԁ, or the Genesis story is a human attempt to explain how the world was made.

@LordShadowfire Or the power of God sustained things.

And if you noticed, I have no issue with Christians believing in an old earth or different interpretation of Genesis.

@BritishFailedAesthetic Yeah, in the most inefficient way possible.
Well, that's no fun. 😆

Seriously, though, I always start at the beginning of the book. I'll find something else later.