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To: MrB

Let’s turn that around and say that you won’t accept or address my denial of inerrancy because it doesnn’t fit your preconceived conclusion or beliefs.

As far as altering the texts, where is the proof that those 6000 scrolls were the first and only writings or that they were translated correctly from the oral traditions that preceded written texts. Actually, many texts were destroyed in the burning of the Library of Alexandria, the burning of the temple, the many conquests of the ancient Jewish state. Just because early writings survived does not mean they are the originals or that they came down untouched by man. Those texts in most if not all cases were not written by the hand of the original prophets or biblical entities. Who wrote the scrolls? Other men after the fact.

There are plenty of texts from the time (50-150 AD) that detail the political influence of the emperor in assembling the biblical texts and did God verify that the translators verified the right documents and writings? Most of what survived of the original writings are copies over many years and iterations of the originals so that they could be passed on to others. That is how the word was passed in ancient times and it is rare that any original document survived. Aside from that, the original writers, phrophets, desciples etc. were also men and those men frequently wrote about the same subject with an entirely different point of view, lesson or narration. Who was right? Even multiple persons who were there with Christ give different versions and interpretations. Who was right?

Again, it is not the various interpretations of the book or the specific denominational belief that is important, it is the faith and belief in God and Christ and his general teachings. You put your faith and belief in God and not in works of man.


93 posted on 08/13/2008 1:49:18 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

OK, you reject the inerrancy of the Bible,

written by 40 authors over 1500 years on three continents and in three languages, yet is internally consistent.

All I can conclude is that there is something in there that pisses you off.

I cast not pearls before swine any longer.


96 posted on 08/13/2008 1:54:13 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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