I am a Catholic and I believe the bible is the inerrant word of God and is 100% truth and although I believe most of the stories were factual especially the gospel accounts..I still believe the bible is not 100% factual.
I believe truth and fact are two seperate things, for example the book of Genesis that depticts the creation of mankind through adam and eve may not be factual it maybe symbolic but it does not make it any less true because truth is not always factual as in how a fact is always true. Truth is more than fact, fact deals with realities, truth deals with moralities, ideologies philosophies.
When we say the bible is the truth of almighty God. it means we have accepted it as morally perfect, ideologically perfect and philosophically perfect...not as perfectly factual (although some people evidently believe it is) and although it is not the revealed fullness of the truth of almighty God for there is more to God than what is revealed in the bible (for the fullness of revelation that is Christ himself) we still regard it as being 100% truth
When we say there is one true God we mean that there is only one ultimate truth, one ultimate ideology one ultimate phiosophy
When Jesus said "I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me.... "
he didnt mean he was factual (although he was) he was saying that he was God, morally perfect, ideolgical perfect and the philosophical perfection and that no one could be perfect unless they were like him...no one comes to the perfect except by being like me.... "be ye then perfect just as your heavenly father is perfect for nothing unclean shall enter the kingdom of heaven"
The fact we have facts is only a pointer towards absolute truth...god
Yes the bible is 100% truth even if it is not 100% factual
I believe truth and fact are two seperate things, for example the book of Genesis that depticts the creation of mankind through adam and eve may not be factual it maybe symbolic but it does not make it any less true because truth is not always factual as in how a fact is always true. Truth is more than fact, fact deals with realities, truth deals with moralities, ideologies philosophies.
When we say the bible is the truth of almighty God. it means we have accepted it as morally perfect, ideologically perfect and philosophically perfect...not as perfectly factual (although some people evidently believe it is) and although it is not the revealed fullness of the truth of almighty God for there is more to God than what is revealed in the bible (for the fullness of revelation that is Christ himself) we still regard it as being 100% truth
When we say there is one true God we mean that there is only one ultimate truth, one ultimate ideology one ultimate phiosophy
When Jesus said "I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me.... "
he didnt mean he was factual (although he was) he was saying that he was God, morally perfect, ideolgical perfect and the philosophical perfection and that no one could be perfect unless they were like him...no one comes to the perfect except by being like me.... "be ye then perfect just as your heavenly father is perfect for nothing unclean shall enter the kingdom of heaven"
The fact we have facts is only a pointer towards absolute truth...god
Yes the bible is 100% truth even if it is not 100% factual