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To: Right Wing Professor
'Encompass' suggests an outside diameter.

OH?

Why?

If someone is going to describe the volume of something, it is the INSIDE measurement that is important. The outer walls could have been 14 cubits thick, but that still would not change the carrying capacity of the interior.

2,005 posted on 02/25/2006 8:47:31 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
Because that's what the dictionary says: surround and have or hold within. The verse refers to the vessel, not its contents. It is therefore encompassed by the outer diameter.

I find it amusing you and your bud P Markowe will stretch the meaning of any word you can to try to make an obviously false statement appear true. If Pi can be three and 'encompass' mean something other than it does, why can't a day be 4 billion years?

2,018 posted on 02/25/2006 9:29:54 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Elsie
If someone is going to describe the volume of something, it is the INSIDE measurement that is important.

What a novel concept!, lol. You can send'em to college, but that don't make'm smart.

2,022 posted on 02/25/2006 10:51:59 AM PST by zeeba neighba (What I'm reading now: The Magic Pudding (The Magic Pudding is a pie, except when it's something else)
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