[JFK_Lib]

The Bible is written by God through the agency of men.

This means that it does contain things that are erroneous because the people that wrote the Bible had some misconceptions at the time, such as describing the reign of Babylon as universal.

This does not impact the spiritual Truth of the Bible as mankind is still the same moral creature as he ever was and so needs the same virtues, restrictions and mandates.

That does NOT mean that each and every poetic reference or hypbolic statement should be taken literally.

[PetroniusMaximus]

***This means that it does contain things that are erroneous because the people that wrote the Bible had some misconceptions at the time, such as describing the reign of Babylon as universal.***

Could you post a refence for this?

[ladyinred]

I must respectfully disagree with you. I believe that every word in the Bible is God inspired. What you must keep in mind is that the Bible is dealing primarily with Israel especially with respect to the OT. (Hence the Babylon rule is Universal). There are some problems with the translations from the original to English. But nothing in there is by accident or human origin as far as I am concerned. JMO.