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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
- Message-ID: <Bxt7qC.ILq@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:51:47 GMT
- References: <28064@castle.ed.ac.uk> <BxsHEB.5AL@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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- In article <BxsHEB.5AL@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> cctr114@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Rea) writes:
- >G T Clark (gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
- >>
- >> The bible is patently not inerrant.Read Leviticus,chapter 18(or
- >> thereabouts) where it fairly clearly states that insects walk "upon all
- >> fours... fourfootedly upon the ground".That's quite clearly a mistake,
- >> no matter what stage it crept in at.
- >
- >This isn't a mistake, its an idiom.
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- This renders "inerrancy" a nonsense. Any passage you might previously
- have argued was an error, you now argue is an idiom.
-
- You can be a Christian and believe *anything you want*.
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- \/ o\ Paul Crowley pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk \ /
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