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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