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To: TheBattman
Faith in things that are obviously wrong is a sign of insanity. The Bible is not infallible. The NT alone contains thousands of differences between its many editions over the course of the past two millennia. One 18th century Bible scholar documented 30,000 differences in only 100 extent documents dating from the fourth century to the Middle Ages -- and the number of such extent documents has now increased several orders of magnitude, and lo and behold, they all are different from one-another to a greater or lesser extent.

The errors creep in due to everything from simple "typos" as the scribes copied from older manuscripts (misspelled words, skipping lines, etc.) to "clarifications" on the parts of some scribes attempting to stress a specific point of doctrine or to remove that option from a doctrinal opponent.

But, even leaving that aside, when a literal reading of Scripture is at odds with reality (as in the case with evolution), it is not reality that is wrong.

355 posted on 06/21/2006 2:01:19 PM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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To: Junior
You can place your trust in what you feel you must, I will place my faith and trust in Jesus Christ - and the book that tells His story - the Bible. You are correct in ONE area - any errors in the Bible are caused by Man. But on the other hand, I believe that there has been enough research, study, and work using older and more manuscripts to be able to put together a reliable Bible- and those same studies show that, as long as context is taken into account, the King James Version is pretty reliable. I personally like to use two or three translations, plus a parallel Greek to reference and dig.

We all must make a choice - simply not believing that there is anything beyond our life here is not enough to make it not true.... I truly am sorry that you apparently have made your choice.

368 posted on 06/21/2006 2:57:14 PM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of a Cancer on Society)
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