If the book the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Ingersoll asks whose fault it is if the Bible and human reason disagree when both are supposedly from God.
- In plain terms
- If the Bible and your brain disagree, who is wrong?
- What can you take from it?
- Resolve conflicts between faith and reason.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you resolve doubt?
- Can faith and reason coexist?
Another view
It assumes human reason is infallible.
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