Proverbs 26-27

(December 6, 2014)

                We are not scriptural inerrantists (despite how we may act, from time to time).  The scriptures are to be read seriously, intently, and with the presumption that they are correct unless impossible to read otherwise.  But they are not inerrant.

                Some people, obviously, disagree.  But I wonder how they handle direct contradictions such as the ones found in Verses 4 and 5 in Chapter 26.  We are to not answer a fool according to his folly, yet we are to answer a fool according to his folly.  In a worldview that takes scriptures seriously but not inerrantly, there are a number of reconciliation approaches that provide insight and enlightenment.  In a worldview that takes scriptures inerrantly, this contradiction would seem to put an entire testimony at risk.