Did Genesis Copy Sunmerian, Babylonian, and Egyption Creation Accounts?

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

@adamjedgar

So here is the dilemma, if a Christian accepts that the Bible is not authoritative, is not 100% innerant [sic]¹ yada yada…

This is a good answer to part of your false dilemma²:

@St.Roymond

@Paraleptopecten

I think that “The Bibel is inerrant in all that it intends to communicate (i.e. theology and philosophy), and certainly in all that is necessary for salvation, but works with the incomplete knowledge of humans to communicate it” would best describe my view.

That’s what used to be called “infallibility”, that the Bible unfailingly communicates as God intended it to.

 

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¹ Speaking of errors.
² Maybe part of the dilemma with your Jewish coworker is not the Bible but you? (Although I’ve been one more than once):

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