Bible truth?

[grantcart]

14. That's a rather pedestrian criticism of scriptural authority.

The basic premise is that it cannot be 'true' because it can't be taken literally which ironically accepts the fairly recent fundamentalist view of scripture which has no scholarly support even at reputable conservative seminaries.

A much greater problem for the Church is not that we don't have a good idea what the original texts likely said, but

a) a deep schism between what scholarship has resolved and the clergy taught and what is rolled out to a rather uneducated laity

and

b) a few critical passages that because they undermine the revised theology of the young church, were significantly added or altered.