To what extent can it be maintained that a literal interpretation of scripture removes all danger of human error?.
All world religions have their own sacred scriptures. They all teach that the world and the universe was created, that the universe is not meaningless and that it has a purpose as do humans. This is explained in the bible and all sacred literature. Often people ask "is the bible reliable" and "was it just made up". .
Many Christians believe that the bible is the direct word of God and believe every word of the bible. However, to me this seems hard to accept, since the bible is made up of 66 books and was written over a period of 3000 years by many different authors who believed that God communicated with them, but how do we come to believe the word of these different authors. The Bible is said to be God's Word to man. In this book, God discloses everything He desires man to know concerning Himself, His workings in the past, and His plans for the future. Nothing in the Bible is extraneous to divine revelation. The whole of it comes from God. .
On the other hand, it could be said that inspiration does not mean that God merely assisted man in the writing process. He actively caused and inspired those men to write what He willed them to write. What was written in scripture is there because God wanted it there. Second, God did not "approve" the work of the inspired writers of Scripture after they were finished. In other words, God didn't review what St. Paul had written and decide that He would approve it because it was correct. Third, the human authors of Scripture were not mere scribes, passive recipients of revelation. They did not engage in "automatic handwriting," merely writing out whatever God whispered in their ears. They used their powers and abilities, so that with Him acting in them and through them, they, as true authors, consigned to writing everything and only those things, which He wanted.
