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- Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
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- From: cctr114@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Rea)
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:50:22 GMT
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- Michael Agney (kanga.caltech.edu!magney) wrote:
- > 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.
- >
- > Yeah, but I'm sure someone can come up with an error so great that
- > claiming it's an idiom would be ridiculous. Carl?
-
- As I am the person who said it was an idiom, and this seems to have
- provoked some rather stupid responses, I would first like to say that
- I have had several years of formal training in Biblical Hebrew and
- continue even today to actively study the language. The people who
- contributed the half-baked responses obviously have not the slightest
- knowledge of the Hebrew language or culture. I could post technical
- details on this particular useage, but as no one has shown themselves
- either interested or capable of understanding what I would post I don't
- intend to post any further explanation. Just for the record, yes I
- am a Christian, but no I don't beleive in inerrancy. If you are going
- to find errors in the Bible you might as well find the real ones and
- stop nitpicking out of ignorance over idiomatic use of the language.
-
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