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- From: jfl@panix.com (Jeff Lipton)
- Subject: Re: Biblical Inerrancy?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.065409.98@panix.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:54:09 GMT
- References: <723869794.AA08733@csource.oz.au> <1992Dec15.152931.16426@linus.mitre.org> <NICHAEL.92Dec15115352@kariba.bbn.com>
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- In article <NICHAEL.92Dec15115352@kariba.bbn.com> ncramer@bbn.com writes:
- >In article <1992Dec15.152931.16426@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
- >
- > In article <723869794.AA08733@csource.oz.au> joe@csource.oz.au (Joe Slater) writes:
- > }Tuesday December 01 1992, James Meritt writes to All:
- > }
- > }JM> That's nice. Do you think that God thought in Arabic, King James's
- > }JM> English, or any other mortal tongue? And if not, wouldn't ANYTHING
- > }JM> that is codefied suffer the same "change and loss of meaning"?
- > }
- > }Obviously the Divine Language is Hebrew. This can be easily demonstrated by the
- > }fact that Adam spoke it before languages were divided, as recorded in the
- > }Bible. I have no doubt that this argument will immediately win hearts and minds
- > }in this newsgroup.
- >
- > No, that is Adam's language (hack hack hack). What did God think in before
- > Adam? You know - what was "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" expressed as?
- >
- >(setq *LIGHT-P* t)
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- According to one beautiful Jewish legend, the Torah was written in letters
- of white fire on scrolls of black fire, prior to the creation of the physic-
- al world. However, if God chose the lambda calculus, I would imagine that
- he would have preferred the elegance of scheme...
- (define Light? #t)
-
- - Jeff
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