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- From: kanga.caltech.edu!magney (Michael Agney)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:47:26 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- In article <Bxt7qC.ILq@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > 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*.
- > __ ____
-
- Yeah, but I'm sure someone can come up with an error so great that
- claiming it's an idiom would be ridiculous. Carl?
-
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- | Michael Agney | Yd - gender neutral pronoun |
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- | | Source: Stories by Alison |
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