While I see no problem claiming it infallible, as long as it can't be disproved. It stands/works in terms of a faith-based religion.
The usual arguments are,
1) Some of the Genesis contents resemble other more ancient stories.
The Bible says that all humans are from the same origin (Adam-Noah), so it's logical that they shall share the same or similar story. They share the same/similar stories till Moses was assigned the job to write them down legitimately.
2) The perception of flaws in OT
That's pure subjective speculation. For an example, 2 detectives are assigned the job to examine a crime scene. They are faced with the same "evidence" but they might have different descriptions about the same scenario. A detetive might say that there are totally 10 bottles in the scene. The other might say that there are actually 12 bottles there. This is because the 1st detective never focused on the bottle, he just roughly counted the bottles and wrote the number down and regarded them as unimportant and not valuable to the investigation.
While the other detective paid special attention to the bottles because in his theory the bottles are directly related to the crime, so he counted them more carefully to say that there are 12 bottles there.
In terms of witnessing in a court, both testimony can be considered as valid though one said that there are 10 bottles while the other said that there are 12. 1000 years later, when this crime case is discussed, people may say that the documents are in contradiction, as one says there are 10 bottles while the other says 12. But they are not contradiction, the documents are still valid testimonies and the twe detectives are still valid witnesses.
It says humans are imperfect (they might count wrongly), but a valid testimony/witnessing doesn't necessarily depend on the perfection of humans. The testimonies can be considered perfect when are considered valid in a court to bring the criminals into justice.
The usual arguments are,
1) Some of the Genesis contents resemble other more ancient stories.
The Bible says that all humans are from the same origin (Adam-Noah), so it's logical that they shall share the same or similar story. They share the same/similar stories till Moses was assigned the job to write them down legitimately.
2) The perception of flaws in OT
That's pure subjective speculation. For an example, 2 detectives are assigned the job to examine a crime scene. They are faced with the same "evidence" but they might have different descriptions about the same scenario. A detetive might say that there are totally 10 bottles in the scene. The other might say that there are actually 12 bottles there. This is because the 1st detective never focused on the bottle, he just roughly counted the bottles and wrote the number down and regarded them as unimportant and not valuable to the investigation.
While the other detective paid special attention to the bottles because in his theory the bottles are directly related to the crime, so he counted them more carefully to say that there are 12 bottles there.
In terms of witnessing in a court, both testimony can be considered as valid though one said that there are 10 bottles while the other said that there are 12. 1000 years later, when this crime case is discussed, people may say that the documents are in contradiction, as one says there are 10 bottles while the other says 12. But they are not contradiction, the documents are still valid testimonies and the twe detectives are still valid witnesses.
It says humans are imperfect (they might count wrongly), but a valid testimony/witnessing doesn't necessarily depend on the perfection of humans. The testimonies can be considered perfect when are considered valid in a court to bring the criminals into justice.
