Paul as a man was indeed fallible, but what he wrote in Scripture is infallible because it was inspired foremost by God.
[MikkalaTube- "Paul was fallible but what he wrote was not? Special pleading anyone?"]
The Holy Spirit of God is what makes inspiration infallible. If God insured that Paul's words in the Biblical text would be accurate, then they would indeed be so. You presuppose that God does not exist, and thus rule out the possibility that divine inspiration exists. The problem is not with the concept, but with your presupposition.
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How can a human, who is inherently fallible by its very design, channel something infallibly perfect? His head would explode. The reality most likely was that Paul was just a hateful and miserable old fart who wrote a few fairy tales to justify political and social economics at the time of writing.
It's funny, how in the mind of every religious preacher, whatever the religion, god likes and dislikes the same things as they do. Hmm...
You assert that because Paul's words are inspired the are infallible. Fair enough.
Now explain how you know they are inspired? When exactly did God come down and say: 'Yo! Them thar words what Paul has writ is infallible!'? I know of no record of this. And unless you can show me otherwise, then it is the opinion of men that the words are infallible. And men are not infallible.... So draw your conclusions. You have been hoodwinked like billions down the centuries with this thought of infallibility and inspiration.
I could write a book tomorrow and claim it is divinely inspired. Joseph Smith did, Muhammad did, but you don't believe this. So what's the difference between the Prophet's, Smith's and your claim to divine inspiration?
Isn't it time that we started having answers. Don't you have a responsibility to veryfy your claims?
The problem is not with the concept Party, but with your presupposition perception.
How many fingers do you see, Winston?
God inspired me to write this: You are an idiot.
EDIT: Meh, someone thought of it first, obviously.
"The Holy Spirit of God is what makes inspiration infallible."
Show this "Holy Spirit" exists.
"If God insured that Paul's words in the Biblical text would be accurate, then they would indeed be so. You presuppose that God does not exist, and thus rule out the possibility that divine inspiration exists."
Yeah, "if" god did this or wanted that. I have a better one: "If god exists." Of course, even if a god exists it doesn't do a damned thing to show your religion is the right one.
"The problem is not with the concept, but with your presupposition."
No, I think the problem lies squarely with the whole Christianity concept.
@Pillow
You know Paul was divinly inspired because Paul said it? Circular argument. Not woth the pixels. You, and others are lending authority to Paul. Not any divine inspiration.
Now tell me, how can you dispense divine inspiration - or how can Paul?
Massive FAIL.
Of course Paul made mistakes in the epistles. The Book of Acts clearly says that, after receiving his revelation, Paul went to Jerusalem and confirmed his mission with the real disciples of Jesus. However, in Galatians, Paul specifically denies that he went to Jerusalem after his revelation because he did not need to confer with anyone.
Clearly Paul was having an off day when he wrote Galatians and forgot the whole trip.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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