Jeremy Pallant

Both hares and rabbits practice refection. Neither one chews the cud. It's also been referred to as autocoprophagy.

Boro Nut

Not the best choice of words to describe Isaiah. Spoofs is more accurate.

Boro Nut

Jeremy Pallant

Don't do that to me! I nearly snorted tea onto my keyboard!

FunkyRes

You assume that a bunch of nomads wandering through the desert after leaving Egypt had the technical terms in their vocabulary to describe what rabbits do as autocoprophagy.

Chewing their cud very well may have been exactly what their culture called such action, unless you can demonstrate they had language for what rabbits do that differs ...

K

FunkyRes:

And they probably also didn't have words for celestial mechanics, abiogenesis, and evolution and so they substituted their words for god and creation.

I think this is what we've been stating all along. These nomads were scientific illiterates. They described things the best they could with their limited background. This is exactly how every other ancient myth came about.

FunkyRes

Doesn't hold since the Genesis account is written in a specific story while filled with symbolism, whearas the law regarding rabbits is a code of law, not a symbolic story.

You want to judge Shakespear and your History 101 textbook by the same standards when they are clearly different types of literature.

Jeremy Pallant

No, I don't. I assume that they didn't have such terms, and wrote down what they saw...and they were wrong in their description. That's the whole point. This thread was started by the claim that the allegedly divinely-inspired Bible was without error. The writers' error may have accurately reflected what they believed about hares, but they were wrong.

Now if someone wants to claim that instead of the Bible being without error, that it accurately records errors, go right ahead.

K

FunkyRes:

I mistakenly assumed that since you were defending the accuracy of the Bible, you were a literalist and thought that the creation story was more than a symbolic creation myth. I apologize for misrepresenting your position.

Vanderzyden

What is the aim of (inaccurately) ascribing the term "nomads" to all of the ancient Jewish people? Surely it is to discredit the Bible. There is no clearer indication of presuppositional erroneous bias than this, K.

"Nomad" is equivalent to "redneck" in your mind, I'm sure. You, like others here, think you are somehow more "sophisticated" than the writers of the Pentateuch, the Psalms, or the Proverbs. However, the content of your posts is strong evidence to the contrary.

Another erroneous charge is that the ancient Hebrews were all flat-earthers. This is clearly false, when we consider such passages as this:


Here we see clear references to a spherical earth and an expanding universe, both of which have only been positively demonstrated in the past 600 years.

Vanderzyden

Jeremy Pallant