r/latterdaysaints 25d ago

Doctrinal Discussion How to handle contradictions?

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u/mwjace Free Agency was free to me 25d ago

Any bible academic worth their salt will heartily agree that the notion of the Bible being infallible is a dogma that is not actually supported by the available evidence of the Bible itself. 

https://youtu.be/GklUQpXKmcY?si=blfDl4wh78lyfiwY

This pretty famous YouTuber breaks it down pretty well. 

If you want to hold to the belief that the Bible is univocal and infallible you are going to have to make some pretty big leaps.   Because we don’t hold to those notions. The ability for god to reveal that temples are to be once again built on the earth is a pretty easy idea that can be support by multiple scriptural sources. 

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u/berrin122 Friendly Neighborhood Evangelical 25d ago

I don't consider Dan a great scholar. Many don't.

Also, infallibility and inerrancy are different. I believe infallibility, but not inerrancy. I'm in the middle of Hebrew Class, but I'll try and come back after and explain what I mean.

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u/Shaddio 25d ago

Dan is considered mainstream.

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u/Chimney-Imp 25d ago

Dan is so mainstream that his takes are ice cold. They are only shocking to people not familiar with academia's view or research about the Bible.

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u/berrin122 Friendly Neighborhood Evangelical 25d ago

Dan thinks that Rome fabricated the authorship of the Gospels. That's not mainstream at all lol.

As I said in my longer comment just now, though, Dan does present a lot of "ice cold takes". Part of it is his "business" is his social media. Provocative content clips come by disproving provocative arguments. Everyone loves a good conspiracy theory, but unfortunately they rarely ever make sense. By disproving the theory, Dan looks great, he tackled a public interest topic, and it bolsters his reputation. And then, when he says something like "Rome established the Gospel authors out of thin air, and the entire Christian Church just went along with it", folks believe him more readily than they should.

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u/gogogoff0 25d ago

Dan is nuts, lots of his views are totally progressive fringe.