Yeah, the whole thing starts to fall apart when they start throwing words like “inerrant” around. Other rigid interpretations too. For example, God can’t be all-powerful or all-knowing if humans have free will. There’s this interpretation of God as a “Great Architect”, a force to set everything up and than let it run its course. That would probably account for an amoral universe, but it doesn’t make any sense to worship such an entity as they’ve already clearly shown they won’t get involved. I ultimately find that most religious people kind of pick and choose which rules to follow (and one must, since they often contradict). And if you do that, you clearly have an internal moral center separate from those rules so why pay them any heed at all? That’s kind of where I’m at, far being it from me to deny others a thing that gives them support and guidance, of course.
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