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Yes, it's best not to let facts interfere with your conspiracy theories.

No one knows. Certainly more than one person.

Your response doesn't seem to have anything to do with the point in question. Do teachers who have been called by God -- something Paul says God does to equip the church -- do those teachers ever make mistakes in their teaching?

I don't know what you mean by 'the Mitzvah'. The word 'mitzvah' means any commandment and also (in contemporary Jewish usage) a good deed. What specific commandment are you talking about? No. Why do you ask -- I've never suggested they were. And why won't you answer the question? Those teachers...

Paul wrote that God appointed teachers in the church (Romans 12:7, I Cor 12:28). If you agree with him, do you think those preachers and other teachers who were appointed by God (never mind any others) never make any mistakes in what they preach and teach?

Okay, I did laugh out loud at that one. Both parts, in fact -- that I don't already know what 'mitzvah' means and that I haven't read extensively on the authorship of the Pentateuch. Have you read anything at all about the Bible that wasn't written by a fundamentalist? It's clear that you and I...

So Paul was mistaken about God appointing teachers in the church? That's your answer. You aren't in a position to tell me what I meant by what I wrote.

Which is from God but which is expressed through their human imagination, i.e both of your possibilities are true, even though you posed them as mutually exclusive. The first part entails the same issue as above, while the second part is something that you invented and that I really doubt you...

You don't seem to have understood the answer. Remember, the question was about possibilities, not about what anyone in particular believes.

Or they came from man's imagination as prompted by God. Or they came from theological insights from God expressed by human authors in their own culturally appropriate idiom. Or they came directly from God but were later extensively modified by editors. Or they came from Satan. Or Genesis 1 and...

Also, attempts at falsification are a pretty small part of science as actually practiced.

No, I'm saying that people became followers of Christ without first deciding that their source of information was infallible. I'm sorry, but your argument doesn't seem coherent here. I thought you were claiming that you had to know that the Biblical accounts were without error because otherwise...

Where that someone else often (after the very early years) hadn't known Jesus in person. ETA: and in any case, I don't think anyone had to decide that those who were testifying were infallible in order to be trusted.

Your way seems to have very little in common with the Biblical picture of how people came to follow Jesus, before or after his death. From my perspective, it doesn't work at all. The books of the Bible are (to me) clearly not entirely reliable and they're certainly not on the face of it reliable...

That's fine. Not that I agree with all of it, but I have no objection to any of it.

By believing and being saved. How do you decide what to believe? About anything? Whatever that is, do that. I see this kind of argument quite often and I've never understood it. How does it make sense to decide the Bible is 100% accurate about everything written in it in order to believe...

Here's what you wrote: 'A more pointed question, along the same vein, would be "Can a person be a Christian and believe only parts of the Scriptures." That is what is really being asked. I would say no.' Do you no longer agree with that? Or what, exactly?

Quite often, yet. Not just scientists, but academics in general, at least in the US system that I'm familiar with. They're often not welcome to stay. Postdocs are usually short-term positions (roughly three years), from which one can apply for faculty jobs, usually at a different institution...

The Apostle Peter (in the unlikely event he wrote the epistle credited to him) said nothing at all about inerrant or infallible -- that's something you invented and attributed to him. And whether theopnuestos meant 'God-breathed' at the time What you completely fail to understand is that these...

Sure. But note that Paul is talking about preaching the gospel, not according inerrant status to some written text. Which is to say, you're ignoring what the Bible actually says and substituting your own beliefs for it. From the use of the word 'inspired' in English, in any other context than...