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Originally Posted by photon
...Also interested in how some of the inerrantists might respond.. I know there was a time when I would have made an appeal to consequences but I don't hold an inerrantists position anymore. I guess many would view such a radical departure from their view of their scripture as a threat to their very faith, or at least require some pretty radical changes to it.
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This is precisely why I would expect that you will not get much of a response. There are certainly at least a handful of inerrantists on the board, but as you suggested, intellectually honest responses to the findings of biblical criticism requires almost a wholesale shift in one's religious worldview. This really becomes an intolerable proposition, as the inerrantist's entire system depends upon a philosophical structure that they have invented in order to make the most practical sense of the text. Once you challenge its validity, then there is no defense.