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“Human beings wrote the Bible.”

I must disagree with you, Kansas58. When we say the Bible is “inspired,” we mean, literally, “God-breathed.” We confess that the Bible in its original language is error free and not the work of man.

As to translation, I do agree, we have translated it into many languages. However, I don’t think there is any assertion of any major error and it has been studied more rigorously than any other document ever. No one who speaks Hebrew, for example, asserts that the creation account is mistranslated.

“The point is that God was and is the Creator.”

I am glad you confess that, but how do you know that, if you think the Bible is an error prone document written by men?

It is odd, to me, that those who have trouble with the infallibility of the Pope (Which he only has when he CLAIMS it, and that is rare) -— it amazes me that you have no trouble saying that all of the people involve with scripture reported everything, transcribed everything, and translated everything PERFECTLY!

Besides, the PURPOSE of the text is also important.

The THEME of Genesis is what matters, GOD is the Creator! There is no possible way that God could explain, at the time of Moses, DNA, cell structure and microscopic biological functions.

“Dust” and “Humus” or dirt, the remains of DEAD organisms, was the closest God could come at the time.

Yes, the Bible is INSPIRED but it is not perfect.

To claim otherwise is to be an Idolater, and your Idol is the Bible.

This is a silly, silly argument.

There are people who believe in evolution who will make it to Heaven.

There are people who believe in Creation without any Evolution who will go to Hell.

The issue does not matter to God, and has nothing to do with the final home of your Soul.

Not a single Author, of any single Book of the Bible, ever foresaw that the entire “Bible” would ever exist.

The Bible has NO sense of itself, and never speaks of itself.