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Originally Posted by archpaladin
This is why I said that the more one has conviction about the Bible being the inspired word of God, the more one is likely to take a single-interpretation stance. People are capable of believing in God and being saved while still wrestling with what the rest the Bible says.
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You are a more trusting soul than I, archpaladin, to equate the level of one's conviction of the inspiration of scripture with the likelyhood of its accuracy...I guess I'm more jaded when it comes to the notion that people will get the message which was intended by God, much less wrestling with the issue of whether God wanted us to fully understand it all the time. The disciples were confused about the mission of Jesus, for example, and see also Mark 4:11-12 (now I've gone and made my head hurt).
That said, I concur that salvation and confusion about the literal truth and "real" meaning of scripture can coexist.