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To: Oztrich Boy
"Imagine you're a Scientologist trying to convice me that Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. really is the answer.
That you assert it is so isn't necessarily compelling."

I'm not a Scientologist so I would not be able to think of anything compelling to convice you of something even I don't believe.

What I do believe is the Bible. It has never been proven wrong. It's wisdom in writing. It's history. It has some science thrown in there. Let me give you some examples.

Isaiah 40:22

[22] It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

Different versions and translations use the word "sphere". It was known even then that the earth was round, or a "sphere". The inhabitants are small from where God sits. I have NO idea why other "religious leaders" didn't preach that and allowed people to believe the earth was NOT round. Galileo only backed up what the Bible has stated.

Lev. 13:46

46 All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

What this is referring to is to quarantine a person when they have a contagious disease. How long has it taken others in the medical profession to finally discover that and accept that? LONG after the Bible clearly stated it.

Numbers 19:13-16

13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

What this is referring to is personal hygiene. It wasn't until the beginning of the 19th century that doctors finally accepted this. The death rate among women giving birth was VERY high - I forget the number. Doctors would not wash their hands as they went from one patient to another. If someone died or they performed surgery that didn't matter - they'd just go to the next patient.

Today doctors scrub and nurses are very conscious of germs and sterilization of everything. Things are sterilized. All along this reference to being clean was in the Bible and given to His beloved people, our Jewish friends.

These are just a few of numerous examples in the Bible.

206 posted on 02/20/2006 10:28:27 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
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To: nmh
Isaiah 40:22

[22] It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth...

The Earth, of course, is neither a circle nor a sphere. It is an irregular oblate spheroid. So even we mistranslate "circle" as "sphere," the passage is still factually wrong.

544 posted on 02/20/2006 3:37:10 PM PST by WildHorseCrash
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