why is it more laudable to accept the sometimes convoluted attempts of human inerrantists to harmonize apparent contradictions than to accept that what is "apparent" is, in fact, real?
I am reminded of the contradiction at the Last Supper in which one writer describes the cup then the bread, but another has the bread then the cup. It looks like a contradiction until the Passover tradition is explained: it goes back and forth. IOW, it really does harmonize.