Posted on 03/04/2009 7:16:11 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
You’re a real glutton for punishment! I replied with references to all of the relevant the posts. It is indisputible: I said “allegory”, you substituted “lie”. Whine all you want, but the thread history is not in question. My position is evidently correct to even the most casual observer.
This, to all readers, is a microcosm of creationist science: “I say so, so there! Nya, nya, nya!”.
"No, He isn’t. God breathes TRUTH"
The word "lie" was never used. FOUR times you lied about me now.
This, dear readers, is the vapidity of evolution.
No fear. People can read and see for themselves. Almost everyone gets it.....
Is this all you’ve got? I’m bored with you now. The thread remains—you’re wrong, and you can’t cover it up.
Be gone.
You’re already “long gone”! HAHAHAHA!
I know...Just rubbing his nose in it!
I look forward to the reply to your challenge. Please keep me in the loop.
First, that's not what I'm doing. I'm looking at a measurement made with a human forearm and deciding it's not a precision measurement. That doesn't require interpretation or any particular position on the accuracy of the text. If I were an atheist who believed the Bible was a collection of fairy tales, I would still think your argument was ludicrous.
Second, believing that everything in the Bible is literally true would mean that one believes there really was a Good Samaritan and that King David really did get comforted by sticks, and it would mean one thinks that Revelation 12 describes a real woman who really wears the Sun for clothing and really rides a dragon. People who say that creationists and others who respect the authority of the Word are "reading it literally" are either putting up a straw man or have no clue what "literally" means.
Third, whether one interprets a piece does not reflect on its accuracy even slighty. One can interpret the author's meaning and intent when reading history, fiction, poetry, marketing copy--anything written, and the fact that one interprets it does not mean that one believes it to be allegorically true, literally true or completely false. It only means one is interpreting.
Actually, you are. If the bible were literally inerrant, it would have been much more precise in calculating the value of the ratio, or, more likely, would have remained silent on the matter.
Allegory is not fairy tale; please do not degrade the argument by referring to it as such.
Oh, and congratulations on the new arrival.
You really shouldn't discuss accuracy when you can't pull it off yourself. I never referred to allegory as fairy tale. I referred to allegory and to fairy tale, but did not equate them.
Actually, you are. If the bible were literally inerrant, it would have been much more precise in calculating the value of the ratio, or, more likely, would have remained silent on the matter.
Really, if the text said "the vessel was 3 and one-tenth cubits in diameter" you wouldn't be asking people "Does pi=3.1?" If it said "the vessel was 3 and three-twentieths cubits in diameter you wouldn't be asking people "Does pi=3.15?"
Sure you would. Just as surely as a cubit is a micrometer.
“I never referred to allegory as fairy tale.”
Yes, you did. My posts have all referred to allegory. The word “allegory” is routinely replaced by respondants by “lie” or some other equally inaccurate representation of my point—”fairy tale” in this case.
How can you adhere to the literal inerrancy of the bible if you can’t even demonstrate the “literal inerrancy” of your own posts?
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