I wanted to address this statement specifically because it is a huge stumbling block for a lot of Christians. I don't think this is correct at all. As I said in my previous post, the case for the Resurrection is overwhelming. Do we throw that out because the Jewish scholars in about 1000 BC who compiled the Pentateuch made some mistakes? Or because exaggerations crept into the oral history of the Jewish people over millenia?
Your argument is what the humanists want us to say. Then all they have to do is find one contradiction in the old testament (easy to do--have you noticed that there are two different creation stories in Genesis, that are somewhat contradictory on major points), repeat the contradiction over and over and destroy the faith of young people.
If you accept the the humanist premise that there is no basis for faith unless every word is provably true, you are setting up our young people for grim lives of athiesm and much worse after they die.
The resurrection is manifestly true. And that is all a Christian really needs.
Well said. I used to argue exactly those points. But give it up. They'll never believe you, and you'll drive yourself crazy trying to point out the obvious to them. Or you will finally accept their argument, as I did, and reject God entirely.
I am so sick of hearing this. Genesis does not contain two different creation stories. For someone who prides them self on their "God given reason," you seem not to be able to use it very effectively at all...