It was a few years ago I made and effort to get back into fellowship with the Lord. I went to church (a different one then mine) but a Pastor I knew. While there I tried to serve the Lord again too. However be it I did not want to do what the Lord would have me do, or because of a difficult passage I knew in the Bible, I fell away again.
Recently, I sought the Lord again knowing that this section of scripture would haunt me. I knew though that I could not let that stand in my way and had to begin to come to the Bible with it is inspired and our only revelation of the one true God it did not need to be inerrent. In fact if thought to be inerrent, our faith would not be "faith" but based on the absolute of the Bible, and our object of faith would be the Bible, and not Jesus the Lord. I hope you follow me.
Anyway the scripture that gave me trouble were the passages of Peter's denial in all four gospel accounts. In three it is stated that the roster would not crow till he denied three times. In Mark it says that it would crow twice before he denied three times.
However after the first denial a rooster crowed in Mark's account. That makes the perdiction of the other three accounts incorrect!
What I came up with (I am not a Greek languge professor or such) hoping that it works out in the indefinate and definate articules, that it was not two crows of a single rooster, but one crow each of two roosters.
For now that works for me, however I still see a danger in teaching the Bible to be inerrent. I would not want though to throw someones seeking faith away on that doubt of mine.
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