Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:09:53 -1000

From: “Rowland C. Croucher” <>

Subject: Faith and the Bible

DavidH wrote:

>

> Hello all.

>

> I liked this post, it was well put.
Which post?

>

> If anyone else agreed with it, I would like to ask the following questions:

>

> Given that (regardless of the state of the originals) all our copies of the

> Bible contain errors, how are we to approach the Bible? 
With a similar faith to that with which we ‘approach’ Jesus the Christ,

except that he is the _primary_ object of our faith, the Bible is a

_secondary_ object…
> Would this approach

> differ if we had an inerrant version?
One part of me wants to deal with this as I would any hypothetical

question…

>

> Does the fact that we have no inerrant scripture available to us affect our

> faith or lives in any way?
It encourages us to ‘hold on to Christ, and for all else be

uncommitted’. (Who said that? wish I’d said it  .

>

> Dave#
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