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Re: Bible apologetics
[Re: jcl]
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04/18/07 21:19
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I'm hardly ever online (long story), but since I happen to be today, I just wanted to drop in my 2 cents --
A. Explain why the Bible repeatedly says "Dew which falleth [or falls] from heaven [the sky]" when it is a fact that dew forms in place upon the grass, by condensation.
B. Explain why, in both narratives of the building of the temple (1 Kings, and 2 Chronicles), Solomon builds a basin, round as a compass, with a radius of 10 cubits, and a circumference of 30. PI = 3.1415926535, therefore it should be 31.
Others exist too, but there's a couple of glaring ones.
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Re: Bible apologetics
[Re: Kinji_2007]
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04/18/07 22:08
04/18/07 22:08
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i always wondered why genesis is the preferred subject for a discrediting of christian belief.
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Re: Bible apologetics
[Re: JetpackMonkey]
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04/19/07 01:38
04/19/07 01:38
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All of these questions, and more, have been answered for years on various apologetics sites. If you spend two seconds looking, I'm sure you can dig up something. Quote:
I got most of the info from a book about the Qumran scrolls that also covers the situation in first century palestine.
JCL, you don't mind if I ask the name of the book and the author of the book, do you?
Last edited by Irish_Farmer; 04/19/07 01:41.
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Re: Bible apologetics
[Re: Irish_Farmer]
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04/20/07 07:59
04/20/07 07:59
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"Dead sea scrolls deception" by Michael Baigent.
- It is true that apologetic sites contain a list of "fixes" for many bible errors; it's also true that most of those fixes just replace one nonsense by another one. You already have to believe strongly in bible "inerrancy" for believing in those fixes. For this reason it's better to give a direct answer, instead of mentioning apologetic sites.
Dew comes from the atmosphere, so "falling from the sky" is a wrong expression, but not an outright error. As the bible was written, no one knew the cause of dew - so you can't blame them for a wrong formulation.
This is different with the wrong PI value. The Egyptians, Greeks and many other people at that time knew the correct approximation of Pi. So maybe the author of that text was not very educated. Apologetic sites offer the "explanation" that the circumference of Salomon's basin was measured on its inside, not on the outside - unfortunately this is nonsense, as no one would use the inside of a vessel for measuring its circumference. Besides, the bible text explicitly states that the outside is meant.
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