Thread: For An Intelligent Conversation On Spirituality/Religion

Originally Posted by paco

Again i must say they are only professing to be christian because saying it is not the truth would be calling their God a LIAR. See 2 Timothy 3:16
and a Christian believes his GOD.

This is called the "No true Scotsman" or the Self sealing fallacy. (No true Scotsman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) You're judging "Christians" by your own definition. Many Christians have a different definition, some that would even exclude you.

Another problem is that you're arguing that the Bible supports it's own infalibility, yet another christian who feels the Bible may be in error couldn't accept that assertion.

Here's something else to think on. Consider these two statements; A)"the Bible is either all true, or it's not", & B)"the Bible is either all true, or it's all false". These two statements are not the same. In the case of "A", there is still the possibility of some of the bible being true, though some of it is false. Statement "B" says that if one thing in the bible is false, it negates the truth of every other statement in there. I think many Christians would agree with statement "A", that if something in the bible were shown to be wrong, it would not really undermine their faith. Would it undermine yours?