Why Biblical Inerrancy?

[Dale (evolutionary providentialist)]

@Mervin_Bitikofer

This is basic stuff, Dale!

“Watch out!” is a pretty basic mandate.

@Mervin_Bitikofer

Not for the purpose of usurping God’s place to decide who’s eternally in or out!

I’m doing no such thing and you’re making a flaming straw man argument. Joseph of Arimathea was presumably a Pharisee, wasn’t he. The Good Shepherd will find his lost sheep.

This is apropos:

@heymike3

Shaking the dust from your feet, and while Jesus has harsh words about this, which is true, yet that word you shared may still find life in some of the most unexpected ways.

And this is an interesting translation/paraphrase:

“But if any place refuses to welcome you or listen to you, shake its dust from your feet as you leave to show that you have abandoned those people to their fate.”
Mark 6:11 NLT

Learn from yourself:

@Mervin_Bitikofer

It is true that Paul’s world did not face the avalanche of disenchantment skepticism that the enlightenment world faced. Or if it did - Paul just didn’t bother interacting much with those people. (Any record of Paul reaching out specifically to the Sadducees who tended not to believe in all the spiritual stuff?) Both he and even Jesus (aside from answering their question about marriage in the after-life) did not spend much (or any?) powder or shot on the very “unbelievers” of their time who might have most anticipated or been like modern skeptics.