Why Literal?

I tried asking this on a different thread and got no answer.If the Bible is the literal written word of God it should be the case that where the author refers to himself in the first person it would refer to God. Do you agree, and if not, why not ?After thirty years of research I would hope that you would be able to answer such a simple question.

Oh, it is a serious question.(BTW even if "booboo" is winning on this thread - I haven't paid much attnetion to the arguments you refer to - he is losing very badly on others).

So your answer is that the Bible is NOT the literal written word of God.Indeed it cannot even be dictated by Him since the opinions about God are - according to you - those of the actual authors.So I have to ask you how you can be certain that other parts are not also the opinions of the human authors.

Can you make your mind up, please ?Either the bits praising God are the opinions of the human authors as you said earlier or they are dictated by God as you now claim.Further if God did dictate the writing - which is necessary for it to be God's literal written word - then you have just contradicted your response to my question which denied just that.And one last point - the fact that you choose to quote a Bible verse that is too vague to decide the issue (even assuming it to be correct and to refer to the Bible as we have it - neither of which is provable) does not speak well for your "30 years of research".[This message has been edited by PaulK, 04-25-2003]

I am merely pointing out that your "evidence" is of no real value resting on a very questionable interpretation of a single verse.Your use of a Psalm later is equally dubious.The fact that you use them at all implies that your research came up without any solid evidence. After all, why use such weak evidence if you have better arguments ?Now are you actually going to deal with my other points ? I still don't know if you really consider the Bible as being the literal written word of God or not. You have both affirmed and denied the claim so where you stand is quite unclear.