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Originally Posted by DionPlett
In the big picture, are the inaccuracies you speak of all that important? Logic will tell you that if you have 4 different people document an event there could be some discrepancies. It's all in how you look at it I suppose. What's obvious to me when I read those gospels is the common theme and that is faith.
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The inaccuracies, contradictions, questionable authorship, etc. become important when people use the Bible as the basis for secular law.
The easy example is Gay Marriage, the fiercest opponents of which generally use the Bible as the basis for their opposition. But, if the Bible can be wrong using it as a defence of a political position is flawed, because the instruction in question may not be divinely inspired.
This leads to the second problem, which is that if the Bible can be wrong, how can any part of it be trusted? If the creation story is to be read as an allegory, why not the Jesus story? Other than the biblical account, there is no empirical evidence of the existence of the character Jesus, could he not be an allegory for the potential for grace and salvation, forgiveness and good conduct contained in each and every one of us?