[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“I respect that you feel differently, and realize that the Magisterium has created enough room for both of our views under its purview.”

I understand that. What I was pointing out is that there are no real contradictions in scripture and you should not rely on a trumpted up list of supposed contradictions as your evidence. I am not trying to attack you, but it seems to me what you’re doing here - perhaps with no intention of doing so - is attacking the credibility of scripture. There is, for instance, a huge difference between claiming that some numbers in scripture have allegorical and symbolic significance and saying that numbers are contradictory or even apparently contradictory. I’m just saying...

[bdeaner]

Note, I am not attacking the credibility of Scripture. I believe it is without theological error. There are apparent contradictions when the Bible is taken literally, but these contradictions do not undermine the credibility of the Scriptures since they only appear when it is read as an objective science or history book, but to do the latter is to read it within the wrong set of hermeneutic lenses. Once you have the right set of hermeneutic lenses on, figuratively speaking, there are no contradictions, and the truths revealed in scripture are coherent, and in fact supported by science and history. That's my point.