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- From: sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re:Biblical Inerrancy?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 12:37 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <1992Nov16.200421.1@cs2.lamar.edu>, carlis_jc@cs2.lamar.edu writes...
- > The Biblical texts were never writen to be Scientific Treasts nor were they
- >ment to be taken as eye-wittness accounts capable of standing up in a court of
- >law. They were written by belivers of Jesus to and for other belivers of Jesus
- >and were ment to relay information of a moral type. To expect the stories to
- >try and prove that what is being stated is true is foolish. That would be like
- >going to a U.F.O.'s abductie suport group and trying to convince them that
- >U.F.O.'s are real.
-
- It sounds like what you are saying is "The Bible is inerrant, because if there
- are any errors, they don't matter anyway." That's a pretty weak argument.
-
- -Scott
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- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
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