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- From: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
- Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
- In-Reply-To: cctr114@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:50:22 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:57:43 GMT
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- Question: Can soemthing that is claimed to be literally innerrant
- make use of idiom?
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- Using a previous example: If I were the author of the bible and I
- wanted to speak of a heavy rain, could I have written, "It rained acts
- and dogs"? Current usage permits this construction as being
- symatically equivelant to heavy rain, but what about future readers?
-
- I guess that part of the answer is that the authors of the bible were
- writing for themselves and not the future.
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