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Unbeliever · 09-20-2003, 09:42 PM

Actually, as may have already been intimated in this thread, I think the Bible is its own greatest contradiction. To think that an OMNIMAX GOD could have written, or even inspired, such a peurile, confusing, contradictory, vague and boring message to humanity is the height of lunacy!

Tickfast · 09-20-2003, 11:10 PM

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Amos, you may want to remind her (gently!) that they didn't have bungee cords 2000 years ago. It took centuries of science to invent that particular bit of madness!

Actually, it's a lot older than you might think:

centuries-old-sport

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Young men on Vanuatu's Pentecost Island have been land diving for centuries, but the practice first reached a broad audience when a National Geographic film crew recorded it in 1955.

09-21-2003, 06:48 AM

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Originally posted by Tickfast
Actually, it's a lot older than you might think:

centuries-old-sport

You see that Unbeliever, I think she's right and maybe the bible is not that wrong after all.

Unbeliever · 09-21-2003, 05:04 PM

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Originally posted by Amos
maybe the bible is not that wrong after all.

God forbid!!!

Unbeliever · 09-21-2003, 05:06 PM

And besides, "centuries" does not millenia make.

Calzaer · 09-21-2003, 05:36 PM

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Why would you expect their accounts to be identical?

Because they were inspired/written by the same inerrant God, maybe?

Magus55 · 09-21-2003, 10:27 PM

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Originally posted by Calzaer
Because they were inspired/written by the same inerrant God, maybe?

And inspired doesn't mean they copied each other. Inspired means, God guided them so they wouldn't write lies or false accounts, or throw in some hidden agenda. They still wrote from their own perspective.

Calzaer · 09-22-2003, 09:47 AM

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God guided them so they wouldn't write lies or false accounts, or throw in some hidden agenda

So "copulating goats looking at striped sticks produces striped goats" isn't a lie or false account? How about "Not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law for ever"?

Doctor X · 09-22-2003, 10:01 AM

. . . or "he exploded/he hung himself" or "he was born in the time of Herod/he was born during the Census" et cetera, et cetera.

Incidentally, I challenge to be shown an in text appeal to "inspiration." "Inspiration" is a foreign concept to the NT texts--and OT. Note well that the author of Lk-Acts does not claim inspiration.

What we have is a purposeful blindness to contradiction. Until I see a rational explanation for the many listed here, I can come to no other conclusion.

--J.D.

Magus55 · 09-22-2003, 11:30 AM

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Originally posted by Doctor X
. . . or "he exploded/he hung himself" or "he was born in the time of Herod/he was born during the Census" et cetera, et cetera.

Incidentally, I challenge to be shown an in text appeal to "inspiration." "Inspiration" is a foreign concept to the NT texts--and OT. Note well that the author of Lk-Acts does not claim inspiration.

What we have is a purposeful blindness to contradiction. Until I see a rational explanation for the many listed here, I can come to no other conclusion.

--J.D.

The Gospels may not, but Timothy does.

2Ti 3:16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

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09-20-2003, 09:42 PM	#81
Unbeliever Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ca., USA Posts: 283	Actually, as may have already been intimated in this thread, I think the Bible is its own greatest contradiction. To think that an OMNIMAX GOD could have written, or even inspired, such a peurile, confusing, contradictory, vague and boring message to humanity is the height of lunacy!

09-21-2003, 05:06 PM	#85
Unbeliever Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ca., USA Posts: 283	And besides, "centuries" does not millenia make.

09-22-2003, 10:01 AM	#89
Doctor X Banned Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: USA Posts: 3,794	. . . or "he exploded/he hung himself" or "he was born in the time of Herod/he was born during the Census" et cetera, et cetera. Incidentally, I challenge to be shown an in text appeal to "inspiration." "Inspiration" is a foreign concept to the NT texts--and OT. Note well that the author of Lk-Acts does not claim inspiration. What we have is a purposeful blindness to contradiction. Until I see a rational explanation for the many listed here, I can come to no other conclusion. --J.D.

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