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Peter Abelard was to twelfth-century dialectic what Barry Bonds is to the modern era of baseball: by far the most influential in the "field" of play but like Barry is accompanied by controversy or in Peter's case, contradictions. They, like in Barry's case have never been enough to overshadow his achievements. Peter was all over the place in Sic et Non selection; from encouraging doubt which yields inquiry through which we perceive truth to us not being able to decipher the Holy Spirit inspired word because we unlike them lack the same guidance and even proved scribal errors in the gospels. None of these were more gratifying than the fact that later authors shouldn't try to fix apparent contradictions or misunderstandings in the Bible themselves but to present them unchanged.
As they say "If it is not broken, don't fix it". In this case it seems broken and trying to fix it breaks it. This refers to scribes mentioned by Peter who sought to amend an apparent mistake when they ran......

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