So inspiration from God demands that the product of that inspiration be flawless? That certainly is a lot of pressure for humans that are inherently flawed! If God inspired me to paint a sunset, I assure you the outcome would be a comedy of errors.
God is infallible, yet the Bible is rife with error. Instead of blaming God, or accepting the errors as fact, why don't you accept the text for what it is and acknowledge the lesson which it imparts? God gave us analytic ability; why would he do this if he didn't expect us to challenge the ideas that came before us?
"And by what common sense reasoning would one come to the conclusion that an all-powerful and perfect God would want to deliberately lead his creation astray?"
You have said yourself it is God's perrogative as to what information he reveals and why.
"Ok, so scientific discovery has proved that the writing of Job was correct when he stated that 'He hangeth the earth upon nothing'."
I haven't spoken to Job lately, so I don't know what he meant by this statement. Was he offering that the earth is free standing, and doesn't rest on large "coathanger?" Well good for him.
So by what logic would an all-powerful and all-knowing God repeat over and over in scripture (hundreds and perhaps thousands of times) that He is infallible, that He can't lie and that His message came directly from Him through the supernaturally inspired writers of the Bible.....and then at the end of the day allow serious errors to be recorded by the writers? The bottom line is that either the Book is absolutely true and can be relied on in all regards or God is a liar or the whole thing was made up by an incredibly well orchestrated group of writers (many of whom lived in different times) and there never was or is or will be a God - it was just an 'interesting coincidence that dozens of writer over centuries and centuries just happened to all produce writings of absolute consistency and that absolutely corroborated each other. (For this conspiracy theorists out there, that would be the ultimate.) As far as your thought that it was 'a lot of pressure for humans that are inherently flawed' - it was no pressure at all as the words of God just flowed through them.
God is infallible, yet the Bible is rife with error. Instead of blaming God, or accepting the errors as fact, why don't you accept the text for what it is and acknowledge the lesson which it imparts?
Rife with errors, eh? And we are still waiting for you to produce that one example - or you going to go back and regurgitate the 30 over 10 is not pi routine again? As far as your comment about acknowledging lessons which it imparts, that I do - and can accept them totally because I know the whole Book is absolutely true (something that I would never be able to do if it was abundantly clear that there were lies and mistakes contained in it).
I haven't spoken to Job lately, so I don't know what he meant by this statement. Was he offering that the earth is free standing, and doesn't rest on large "coathanger?" Well good for him.
Funny.... you want to make such a big deal out of the 30 over 10 is not pi business (when the text allows much room for possible explanations as to why that is correct) but when it comes to a simply, straightforward but fantastic statement (given that this was likely written before 1000 BC) like 'He hangeth the earth upon nothing', you want to pretend that it means nothing. Uh huh.