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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Christian apologists/apologeticists just need to accept and explain that the Biblical canon is a haphazard work by commitee, with input and changes by hundreds of authors, word of mouth transcribers, and whose books were picked, chosen, and even thrown out by councils of people living in the dark ages with a dark age education and cultural mentality which in and of itself was over one or two millenia separated from the culture and region that spawned these works in the first place. It is a work compiled over thousands of years and a product of the specific culture of the times. Holding every word, ordinance, or cultural story as divinely inspired and chosen and eternally applicable will only cause you complications and contradictions with the modern day living out of the religion in a vastly much more liberalized and intellectual world. If you are a thinking person, either religious or not, there must be massive amounts of cognitive dissonance going on in your brain to try to rationalize any literal interpretation.
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Most people don't know this though.. I mean pastors are taught it at seminary, but when they get to churches they seem to teach mostly from a devotional point of view, they don't touch anything that the past 300 years of Biblical scholarship has worked out.
So most don't have any cognitive dissonance, because they haven't read the gospels horizontally, or struggled with the discrepancies, or know that many of the books were written fraudulently (many of the Pauline letters weren't authored by Paul), etc etc. As far as they know the Bible is inerrant because they haven't seen any different.