[jboot]

If the Bible is not trustworthy, even its "basic message" has no foundation. It becomes nothing more than clever mythology. And because the basic message of scripture is not merely "love", but "how can wicked, sinful man be reconciled to a infinitely holy and just God", thinking of it as myth-or an error-filled hodgepodge-may be very tempting.

You imply that I think myself to be infalliable. I do not, not in the least. But I DO believe that the Bible is.

[theDentist]

I didn't say it's not trustworthy. I said some aspects of it were likely altered from original meanings thru translations, through editing, and thru men. But if you are saying that the message remains absolutely accurate throughout from the moment word was put to paper over the last 2000 years, then you are welcome to that.

We just disagree.