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Hi, Raf! I have always respected your thinking, and have no problems with the decisions you have made. If I had the same experiences you have had, I may well have come to the same conclusions myself. This post should not be interpreted as argument against your position, but just raising questions with which I've also had to deal. I probably wouldn't have chimed in at all, but right now, I happen to be writing a paper for archaeology class on "Genesis as a conversational response to the Enuma Elish," so I've been thinking about the first 11 chapters of Genesis. Your post raises two questions to my mind. First, why should we privilege the PFAL definition of what it means to be God-breathed, or anything else from PFAL for that matter? And second, what exactly do we mean by "error"? That is, is it valid to privilege a post-Enlightenment definition of "truth" as propositional over the traditional definition of "truth" as poetic. After all, poetic expression is much closer to actual experience than abstract proposition. Propositional expression has proven very powerful for science and technology, but can we really say that hydrogen bombs are the best end products of human ingenuity? Is it really fair to hold the writers of Genesis, or the Enuma Elish for that matter, to standards of "truth" that would have been totally alien to their way of thinking? Love, Steve