Gladly. See below.
To say Paul harbored "Uninspired" and "Misguided" Personal Opinions, well, that does not square with the object that is biblical inerrancy.
Sure it does. The Bible contains many reports of people doing and saying false or mistaken things. It records David killing two men and marrying their wives. It records the wisest man to ever live saying life is meaningless. It records Job challenging God. It records the prophet Elijah mistakenly believing he was the only one in all of Israel zealous for God. It records the prophet Jonah knowing what God would do in Ninevah and his refusal to do as commanded and saying, "
It is better for me to die than live," claiming he had a right to be angry! It records the Jewish leaders many, many errors handling God's word. It records the sons of boanerges errantly wanting to bring down fire. It records Peter denying Christ, the same Peter who wrote two epistles and had to be admonished for behaving one way with Jewish converts and another way with Gentile converts. The denial and hypocrisy were not inspired; the epistles were.
None of which makes the
scriptures mistaken. God didn't inspire David's wrongdoing. God didn't inspire Peter's wrong doing in word or deed.
You jumped to conclusions to which you shouldn't have jumped.
Your reasoning is seriously flawed.
And you did not do what was asked of you:
quote me saying Paul was uninspired.
Either Paul was inspired by the Holy Spirit to write his letters and everything contained therein, or he was not, and was fallible.
Ah, I see the problem. You do not correctly understand the doctrine of scriptural infallibility.
Paul stated quite plainly and explicitly his statements did not come from God.
1 Corinthians 7:6, 10-12
"6But this I say by way of concession, not of command..... 10But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband 11(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife. 12But to the rest I say, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her."
The first sentence quoted Paul explicitly states was not a command. The second sentence Paul explicitly states came from God. The third sentence Paul states 1) comes from him and 2)
NOT from God!
I believe him.
And God saw fit to have that recorded in His the infallible, inerrant and inspired written word for our benefit.
You can't have it both ways.
The
evidence proves otherwise. I proved my position. All you've done is misconstrue a post, misunderstand and misapply a doctrine, argue a fallacious rationale, and do it all absence any evidence.
The doctrine of inerrancy states scripture is in errant (in its original form) to all that it speaks. In other words, the doctrine of inerrancy does claim the Bible is authoritative as a physics textbook or a repair manual for my F-150 pickup. The doctrine of infallibility doesn't claim every word of ever personage is factually correct
because one of the things to which scripture speaks is human fallibility. It does so often.
If you think Paul was wrong in respect to his views on marriage and celibacy, then what else would you accuse him of misunderstanding? This very position, based on your comments, is borderline heretical.
Ah, you didn't actually read my posts, did you? If all of my posts had been read in their entirety then it would have been seen that I quoted many of Paul's other statements on marriage and treated tham as inspired, authoritative and inerrant. I don't think Paul was wrong in respect to his views on marriage
when he was writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, but Paul stated quite plainly his statement did not come from God.
I believe him.
Except they were not mere personal opinions unless Paul was only quasi-inspired by the Spirit. There are no half-measures here.
Paul said what he said, and what he said was one view was not a command and the other did not come from God but was his own view,
not God's.
I believe him.
Now, are you going to stop wasting everyone's time and show where I actually stated Paul was uninspired or are you going to continue to try and defend your own uninspired wrongdoing? Or perhaps you'll acknowledge you jumped to conclusions when you shouldn't have.
You're arguing on behalf of a guy who thinks Christians should eschew marriage and live lives of celibacy based on one sentence Paul wrote in 1 Cor. 7. Have you treated his arguments with the same vigor you've treated mine or is this a biased zeal I read?
Tell you what: you take 1 Corinthians 7:12 to three priests, ministers, pastors, seminary professors, or someone you know with training correctly handling the word of God and you ask them what Paul mean when he said, "
I say, not the Lord." And when you get done take a look at Proverbs 26:17 and think about it the next time you feel the need to hijack someone else's op.
