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05-29-2003, 07:57 AM | #1 | |
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Can someone with actual knowledge critique this statement?
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I suggest you read, "Who Wrote the Bible" at the Straight Dope. You'll find it at: http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbible1.html Tenspace |
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Tell him/her to list "cases in the bible where the answer is known by other means with a high degree of reliability" first.
Like in Leviticus, rabbits are known not to chew cud right? Ask him/her that. Ask him how Judas died and the two contradictory accounts of his death in Matthew and Acts. Tell him to list examples so that when you drive a truck through them, he doesnt weasel himself out. I have seen some wesel themselves out of the Genesis example above. |
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The test is whether anyone can find significant error in cases where the answer is known by other means with a high degree of reliability.
The first three chapters of Genesis have been clearly and decisively shown to be myth. So the book starts out with "significant error". |
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Well, you might try arguing that, for example, the Genesis creation account(s) and the Flood account are "wrong" not because "man is fallible" but because the authors originally and knowingly wrote them as myths, not as historical accounts. You could point him to, for example the Sumerian/Babylonian creation/flood myths which predate the Bible and from which the Biblical myths were derived.
Or you could just :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:. |
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I would have to look it up for the passage, but the Bible states the value of Pi to be 3. So has the value changed over the years, or are we wrong? Or is it that the Bible writers were wrong?
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