home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Path: sparky!uunet!blaze.cs.jhu.edu!jyusenkyou!arromdee
- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.213201.1817@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Sender: news@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Usenet news system)
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <1ebi8eINNhc@gap.caltech.edu> <Bxzrrz.9M3@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <GERRY.92Nov20125743@onion.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:32:01 GMT
- Lines: 19
-
- In article <GERRY.92Nov20125743@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
- >Question: Can soemthing that is claimed to be literally innerrant
- >make use of idiom?
- >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?
-
- If God writes the Bible, he should be able to write (or at least to inspire)
- the use of those idioms that don't happen to change with time.
-
- (Otherwise, I could just as well say "hm, it says Jesus rose from the dead.
- That's so obviously ridiculous when taken literally that it must be an idiom.")
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
-
- Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu, arromdee@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu)
-