Hi, Psalm148,
If you click the little green reply button at the bottom of a post, you can reply to a specific post and poster. I'm going to assume that some of this post was directed at me.
If all scripture is not given by God, than apparently this statement is false.
Stop and think for a minute. When the epistles to Timothy were written, what
was "Scripture"? The New Testament didn't exist yet.
Who's then to say what else this author may have said that was false, because apparently if that is the case then we cannot always trust his words.
The answer is still the same: Anybody who reads anything honestly can (and must) decide for himself which parts of it are accurate and which parts are not. We should never, ever, under any circumstances trust anybody's words without checking them against reality.
As for the flood, as of so far I believe that it happened, but I have not done personal research on it.
We have a whole forum on the Flood.
There's a lot of research done for you there and a lot of links to more research.
If some of the things said in the Bible are false, then we cannot guide ourselves by it.
If some of it is false, why insist that all of it is false? Besides being bad logic, that's a very sad outlook. As with anything in life, take the good and leave the bad.
If you can't tell what's good and bad, no book is going to do it for you.
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