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To: Modernman
You're making a mistake if you believe that acceptance of the Bible is a prerequisite for understanding of the Bible.

Acceptance is a requirement for a correct understanding. Someone who rejects the Bible will see two passages and say: Look! A contradiction, see I am right!

Someone who accepts the Bible will see the same two passages, and say: That's interesting. Are there other passages or an explanation that will reconcile them?

266 posted on 04/25/2005 12:48:54 PM PDT by frgoff
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To: frgoff
Acceptance is a requirement for a correct understanding. Someone who rejects the Bible will see two passages and say: Look! A contradiction, see I am right!

Your statement is based on the presumption that non-Christian Biblical scholars study the Bible in order to disprove it. Some might, but others would simply approach it like a historian might approach any other historical document. You're assuming that every non-Christian has an axe to grind with the Bible.

Someone who accepts the Bible will see the same two passages, and say: That's interesting. Are there other passages or an explanation that will reconcile them?

A non-Christian Biblical scholar can do the same.

392 posted on 04/26/2005 6:53:02 AM PDT by Modernman ("Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde)
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