[aruanan]

Every species mentioned is a bird except for the bat. Now, why would the Holy Spirit lie to Moses? So, that we can be having this argument 3,500 years later?

Again, you're assuming the Holy Spirit would be communicating to Moses in terms of your taxonomy instead of the one used by Moses. This sort of argument is of the same sort as those who say that if the KJV was good enough for Paul it is good enough for them.

[kosta50]

See my post 5550. Bats were never birds; men were never dogs; sheep were never fish (and the mustard seed was not the smallest seed even in the first century Palestine). No matter what or whose taxonomy. Some things are the way they are even if you don't understand them.

[kosta50]

Again, you're assuming the Holy Spirit would be communicating to Moses in terms of your taxonomy instead of the one used by Moses

You treat factual truth as some conventional fad. Whales are not fish. They may "look" like fish, but they are not fish any more than chimps are humans. My point is that whales were never fish, and chimps were never humans (nor humans chimps)! Likewise, bats were never birds; whether people knew it or not. That's the truth and truth doesn't change with ignorance or with knowledge.

If everything in the Bible is the true, inerrant word of God, then God wants us to believe that bats are birds!

Otherwise, the authors made mistakes and not everything in the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Now, which is more likely?

But if someone's entire faith rests on the inerrancy of the Bible, even when obviously wrong, then the believer will hang on to it like a drowning victim will hold on to a straw believing it's a huge log that will save him.