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To: L,TOWM
A rounding difference on a "cubit" for a structure built 400 years before Euclid and Archimedes established 'pi' is a hair split of the lowest order.

I disagree. If the Bible is the word of God, then why would God lead us to believe that pi=3? Why give exact dimiensions, instead of saying clearly that its "a bit more than" whatever number is given for the dimensions? Even 400 years before the Greeks determined pi accurately, surely God knew that the correct value was not 3, right?

752 posted on 05/26/2005 7:53:55 AM PDT by stremba
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To: stremba

Unless God changed the value of pi in the interim.


753 posted on 05/26/2005 7:57:02 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: stremba
Tell me precisely what a cubit is, and we may be a basis for discussion.

Most of the commentaries give the dimensions as being "about 4.5.meters (diameter) and about 13.5 meters circuference".

The passage in IKings never uses the word "circle" but describes a massive bronze casting "round all about" (KJ) "circular in shape" (NIV, and "circular in form" (NSRV). I have yet to see the passage translated as "Huram cast a large bronze sea that was a perfect Euclidean Circle". So, if IKings 7:23 read "and the sea measured 9.7 cubits from rim to rim...and needed a line 30.45 cubits to measure around it", you would be a sold out, on fire, spirit filled Jesus Freak, right?

That may sound sarcastic, but I am trying to illustrate a point.

There is a big difference between "literal" and "innerrant". Whether Huram cast Soloman's Sea with perfect geometric proporations, or the chronicler in IKings rounded his numbers does not reveal anything about God's nature, and how to receive his grace.

The thing that cracks me up on these threads, is that many of the hard "naturalism only" that regularly post on Crevo threads would make the Pharisees of old proud. As would many of those that are diametrically opposed.

1,249 posted on 05/27/2005 7:45:11 AM PDT by L,TOWM (Liberals, The Other White Meat [Born in California, Texan by the Grace of God.])
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