The Bible Is Inerrent

I am super thrilled to finally be debating with you from seeing your previous debates. ===========DEFINITIONS===========Inerrant/Inerrancy: A state of being free from any errors. Errors: Contradictons; mistakes regarding science, history, prophecies, etc. ===========ARGUMENTS ===========C1) Scientific Errors in the BibleC1.1) FirmamentGenesis 1:6"And God said, 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. '" "The Hebrews regarded the earth as a plain or a hill figured like a hemisphere, swimming on water. Over this is arched the solid vault of heaven. To this vault are fastened the lights, the stars. So slight is this elevation that birds may rise to it and fly along its expanse. " [1] In addition, the word firmament in Hebrew is the word raqiya and it means the following: 1) extended surface (solid), expanse, firmament a) expanse (flat as base, support) b) firmament (of vault of heaven supporting waters above) 1) considered by Hebrews as solid and supporting 'waters' above [2]. Okay, so what does this all mean? How is there an error? We know today that this solid sky-dome is simply not true and never existed [3]. C1.2) Flat Earth CosmologyWe have just seen from the Jewish Encyclopedia that they viewed the Earth to be a plain, so here are a few more verses that seem to back up. Isaiah 40:22"It is he who sites above the circle of the earth, and its inhabatants are like grasshoppers, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;. .. Note that a circle is flat. In addition, the world is not a "circle" but rather a sphere. The shapes of the earth are not interchangable. The word tent is something you put on a flat surface. There has NEVER been a tent that is spherical object enveloping another spherical object. [4] The word for "circle" is the word khug. This means circle. According to Strong's Concordance, it gives the verbal form of the words as "to draw a circle. " The noun is translated as eitehr circle of a vault. Contention 2: Failed Prophecies Prove the Bible is errantC2.1) Tyre and EgyptEzekiel 26:7-14For thus says the Lord: "Behold I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a hosts of many soldiers. He will slay with the sword your daughters on the mainland; he will set up a seige wall against you. He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. .. With the hoofs os his horses he will trample all your streets; he will slay your people with the sword and your mighty pillar will fall to the ground. .. they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. .. I will make you a bare rock. .. you shall never be rebuilt, for I have spoken," says the Lord God. This, of course, never happened. These verses are referencing a complete destruction of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar. After 13 years, Nebuchadnezzar lifted his sieg on Tyre and arrived and a compramised agreement [5]. Thus, Nebuchadnezzar never done that and it was eventually destroyed by Alexander the great. The other problem is that it was rebuilt [6] while the prophecy states it is forever desolate. Contention 3: The Bible contains contradictionsC3.1) Did Michal have children? A. NoII samuel 6:23Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death. B. YesII Samuel 21:18But the king took the two sons of Rizpha the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoi and Mephiboseth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel. .. C3.2) Who was Joseph's Father? A. JacobMatthew 1:16And Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. B. HeliLuke 3:23 Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli| CONCLUSION |We cannot say that the Bible is inerrant and thus I urge a vote for CON until my opponent is able to prove that these verses are not errant. I await your response. Good luck to you. ____________________________________________________________________________________________[1]. The Jewish Encyclopedia . http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com...[2] Strrong's Concordance Dictionary . http://www.blueletterbible.org... [3] Is Heaven The Sky? . http://www.infidelguy.com...;[4] Rejection of Pascal's Wager . http://rejectionofpascalswager.net... [5] Asmiov, Guide to the Bible: p587-588[6] Howell-Smith, In Search of the Real Bible: p40-41