Just how much of the bible is infallible to fundies?

[Quadlok]

Well, probably not Song of Solomon, as it would be sort of hard for them to be anti-pornography otherwise.

You will show me the Song of Solomon now. You will do it now.

It would only be pornography from a really repressed, Victorian standpoint. Its basicly just some naughty poems that everyone thinks are fricking hilarious when the discover it in 5th grade Sunday school, on about the same level as looking up swear words in the dictionary.

Remember, though, the bible is chock full of incest, adultery, sex, prostitutes, etc.

[Guardsman Bass]

Yeah, wolveraptor, about the "hardest core" it gets is the comparison of the woman's breasts to a pair of "roes."

[Jarl Sven]

Alright, here's the question put a little more completly:
Many parts of the bible are clearly not written or inspired by god, so which parts of the bible are considered to be infallible, and which parts are not?

I suppose that even non fundamentalist believers would say that all of it was inspired ( I don’t think anyone claims for it to have been physically written by God) but only the fundies would claim that each word was literally true.

The tradition with the mainstream/non-fundies is that large portions of the bible are allegorical, metaphorical, or are otherwise wrapped in then-contemporary literary styles.

The problems come from when the various sects disagree as to what applies to different sections....the book didn’t come with liner notes.

The Protestants in particular have a problem, especially the Fundamentalist ones in that they have a tenent of “scripture only”. If they try to separate the drek out they wind up with a “god of the gaps” situation

[Guardsman Bass]

Most Biblical Literalist Fundamentalists would probably tell you that they think most of the "history" in the Bible is absolutely true. For example, they would tell you that Adam and Eve were really expelled from the Garden of Eden, there was a real Moses who led a real Exodus, David slew a real Goliath, and so forth. That's at least my experience amongst the more fundamentalist-leaning people I know. Like someone earlier mentioned, Job varies, but most of the above seem to believe that he was real.

[Enforcer Talen]

I was raised bible was inerrant and completely inarguable. 7 days creation et al.

I was managing a quite elegant form of doublethink for my science classes.