Essay:Problems with "Problems with biblical inerrancy"

Introduction
It is often the case that atheists do not know beans about theology or Biblical exegesis. Prima facie, this is appropriate, since theology would be regarded by atheists as the study of an imaginary being, while the entire field of Biblical exegesis would be regarded as a textbook example of GIGO.

However, when those same atheists then, in their laughable ignorance, pursuing an agenda of making the Bible seem so obviously self-contradictory that only a conspiracy of theologians could have kept these blinding facts from the people, make attempts to interpret the old tome, the said ignorance becomes unconscionable. Furthermore, the results of said attempts are usually roundly laughed at by more educated people: firstly, because they read like a geology paper written by a creationist; secondly, because not only do they tend not to address more fundamental non-obvious contradictions that have been addressed again and again by theologians, but their authors do not even notice that said contradictions exist.

An example of such a stupid exegetical article is (or was) to be found on this Wiki. It is entitled "Problems with biblical inerrancy," and enumerates, in a manner that is not even wrong, a number of so-called "contradictions" in the Bible; these enumerations remain despite the protests of just about every theist (from literalist to non-Christian) who has ever edited the Wiki in volume. Even I, whose knowledge of Christian theology is very sketchy, can see that.

In this side-by-side essay, I address this article piece by piece.

Mental Gymnastics

 * Context


 * Old v. New Testament


 * Lifelines