Were not Matthew, Mark, Luke John and Paul
also fallible humans?
Weren't the church «fathers» who established the current canon of the Bible
also fallible humans?
Not exact matches
Rather, in my view, they are most faithfully engaged with as a collection of books written by
fallible human beings whose work bears the hallmarks of the limitations and preconceptions of the times and the cultures they lived in, but
also of the transformational experience of their encounters with God.
The system of checks and balances they built in the Constitution was formed not only by the recognition that good citizens may differ over the proper course of action, but
also, at least in part, by the Biblical understanding of
humans as
fallible and prone to wrong - doing, and therefore frequently in need of some healthy opposition from their fellows.
Those tonal issues
also prove challenging for the
human characters, who are forced to tread an ill - defined line between
fallible and cartoonish.
Children do best when they know their parents are
human,
fallible, but
also trustworthy.