Quote from TraderZones:
People who believe the Bible do not particularly agree to "The people who wrote the Bible believed what they were writing to be true" Either God was the author through prophets & apostles, or it really doesn't matter.
As I understand it there are varying positions within the christian faith regarding this: Some are of the position that the Bible is a series of narratives written by real (and imperfect) men over a long period of time, and it is these to which my point refers - given the advancements in science, technology and understanding, it seems sensible (to me, at least) that the errors / misjudgements of the authors can be acknowledged without compromising the legitimacy of the messages and lessons that the authors are aiming to teach.
Others who believe that the Bible is the direct word of God - well, for those who believe this to be the case, I can understand the will to defend claims from Science that what is stated in the Bible simply cannot be true.
But you also need to realize, "we have the science to prove this" is a gross overstatement of current scientific knowledge.
We do have the science to prove the claims that the world is 6,000 years old are false.
And "believers" who give dates for the origin of the earth via Creationism are giving their view. Many of us are theistic evolutionists who have no probelm with a 4.6 billion year old Earth.
Pardon my ignorance, but I had to Google "theistic evolutionists" - and from the VERY brief introduction, I can't see why that view cannot be the case.
It has nothing to do with human beliefs. If the book was written by just "people" then it is relatively worthless.
I disagree. There are lessons in the Bible that are good to learn for their own sake - the good samaritan, forgiveness, and so on. These are worthwhile in their own right.
If it was written by God, then the feeble methods of modern scientists compared to God is not an issue.
The methods of modern scientists are corporeal, and have shown that they can be used to further an understanding of the behaviour of the world around us.
It doesn't matter who wrote the Bible, there are still things that are written that we can say are false. The tangible science shows this, while the argument that science is wrong - because God is greater than science - is made up of intangibles and conjecture. It is this last point that really makes the difference IMO - no matter how conclusive the evidence, one will always be able to retort "but that is nothing compared to God", just like scientists will always ask "why?".