Is The Bible True Part 1 | Julian Gentry

At Ratio Christi, we don't simply believe the Bible is true because it claims to be. In this week's video, we explore Part 1 of the question: Can we really trust the Bible? We’d love for you to join the discussion!

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You could almost mistake this for real college.
My favorite part is that the only view of inerrancy wherein our perfect, all powerful god is actually inerrant *only applies to the original manuscripts* -- which, spoilers, we do not have. Isn't it even a little bit curious that the very things it's most important for human beings to understand are hopelessly, endlessly open to interpretation? Otherwise we wouldn't need all 45,000 christian denominations and a few billion different interpretations of what God is trying to tell us, right?
If this information is so vital for us to understand, if our salvation and our ability to carry out God's will depends on it, and if Christianity really offers objective morality, why can't modern christians agree whether, say, slavery is wrong?
Why do modern Christians move mountains over a single minor pronouncement in the OT (among many others in the same book they ignore), while being wholly unmoved by obscene accumulations of wealth, which Jesus himself rails against repeatedly in the gospels. In other contexts we're told by Christians that the OT doesn't matter, and by all (even non-christian) accounts the gospels are the closest thing we have to the actual words and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Any apologist has ready answers to these questions. And if you're already a devoted Christian, those explanations are a lot more palatable than the truth: we have no good evidence that the bible has supernatural origins, much less that it's inerrant, which is why all the prevailing views of inerrancy have ample room for errors built in.