Sven

Some people claim that it is error, I don't. The problem, which you surely know, is that the diameter of a round pool is given as 10 cubits (?) and the circumference as 30 cubits. My point isn't that this is an error (measurements don't have to be that accurate / maybe it wasn't a circle / etc.), but that one can not determine pi to more than one digit from this - so the knowledge of the decimal digits of pi is not the bible. That's all.

One thinh we can agree on.

Yes, but unfortunately for the inerranist much of the geography and history of the bible has been proven wrong.

LP675

Ahhh. That’s all you meant. (move along, :wave:nothing to see here!)

I suppose it’s a fair point, and I would more or less agree with you. Another thing we agree on!

ArchAngel

Windows 98 doesn't recognize more than 128 mb if that is the OS you are running. There should be a patch to download online to solve the problem. If you are running another OS then I have no idea. (I found this deeply hidden in the book of job.)

Sven

In which verse and chapter of the bible did you find this knowledge? :Cheeky:

This starts to get a thread for the humor forum...

Dr_Paine

"It" was not written as such. The eclectic collection of writings later assembled as the Bible were likely not written with any unified purpose in mind. Thus we have the hodgepodge makeup of the "Bible" (hear the word resonate as I say it?)

There is nothing integrated about the arbitrary collection except in the creative minds of the apologists and harmonizers (rationalizers of contradiction and inconsistency) :devil3: :

wardy

please elaborate: I want to understand what you are saying. To me it sounds like you are saying that the collection of writings that we have that make up the Bible have no direction or centralized purpose that connect all of the books together.

Agnostic Theist

If all knowledge is in the Bible, why don't we know who wrote Genesis?

TightSight

Ahh my friends, but of course all knowledge is in the bible! Allow me to explain.

Somewhere in Genesis we get the following passage: "A". I think we can look farther in to find the passage "B", and if we do a thorough enough search we can find every letter of the alphabet. Folks, the answer to every question lies with those 26 life changing letters. Lets look at some examples:

What is my name? From a very liberal interpretation and combination of various passages we get: "T" "I" "G" "H" "T" "S" "I" "G" "H" "T", very simple. Lets move onto another example. Many critics might say "but there arent many numbers in the bible", hah, we have 1 - 9, thats is all we need. Even still, we don't even need numbers:

1 + 1 = "2" From some verse
OR
1 + 1 = "Two" - Found from some verse, in the bible.

I dont know how anyone can dispute these claims, but it seems pretty obvious to me that the bible has a monopoly on truth. :rolling:

inquisitive01

Hmmmm. Actually, that's not something we NEED to know (we don't HAVE to have a computer, thus we also would not HAVE to have the full memory capacity of it, should we choose to have one). We also don't NEED to know many other things, such as the ration of oxygen/nitrogen/carbon (etc.) on a newly discovered planet near a certain star 50 light years from Earth.

Therefore, perhaps all the knowledge we NEED to know is actually in the Bible.

Dr_Paine

Indeed, that's how it is. Do you retroject a "centralized purpose" onto the "Bible"? It is common knowledge that the writings that were later assembled as the Bible were of disparate backgrounds; I find no cohesive theme throughout the Bible.

The chronological order is inaccurate; there are numerous contradictions, and inconsistencies; redactions are evident; and the suggestion of a syncretic development of the Hebrew religion along with the Canaanite pantheon.

Design and purpose are read back into the text; neither emerges from an honest reading.

What connects all of the writings is simply binding and a leather cover.