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- From: varney@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (Al Varney)
- Subject: Re: God exists. Proof within.
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:09:54 GMT
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- References: <C17y16.Jt6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <PMETZGER.93Jan21215810@snark.shearson.com> <C18s77.Cq3@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C18s77.Cq3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb) writes:
- >pmetzger@snark.shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
- >
-
- >>.... I could simply go out and write up a book
- >>of thousands of demonstrably correct facts and include in the list the
- >>assertion "God does not exist", and by your argument I would therefore
- >>be obligated to disbelieve in God.
- >
- >This isn't the same thing. The bible is a book of related facts. The entire
- >Bible is a combination of webs and strands crisscrossing back and forth.
- >It has been compared to a fragile system of bridge supports, made strong
- >through unity. Each part realted to every other part in some way. This
- >is why you get what is known as the Thompson Chain Bible. (Great work for
- >anyone interested BTW). You can't take parts of it out and have the same
- >thing. It is too interdependent. The book you speak of has none of these
- >characteristics. It is the bible's nature to be combined.
- >It is this nature that lets us generalize about it's truth. The book you
- >propose is not such a work and an assumption of that kind would be unwar-
- >rented.
-
- Well, I'm somewhat interested, but more along the lines of:
-
- How did various writings get put in the OT and NT, who made the
- decision(s), and, most interesting, what writings were rejected from
- the Bible? Was there a stated criteria? Why do different Christians
- have different Bibles (not just translations)? If it's the "bible's nature
- to be combined", why haven't it's contents been agreed upon? Is the
- TRUTH of various Bibles different? Is the Jewish OT not as truthful?
-