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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Exactly, and keep in mind that what is crude is OUR knowledge of exactly how long a "cubit" and a "hand" are. We approximate a cubit at 18 inches, but it is highly unlikely that 1 cubit = 18.0000 inches.

With that said, skeptics commonly use this passage to try to disprove the bible. An important thing to keep in mind that this passage was in no way trying to 'prove' the value of pi to begin with. It is a general description of an object, not intended to be a treatise on the estimation of pi.

69 posted on 12/12/2009 6:29:37 AM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: Godzilla

My favorite is actually blueberry:)

But I think that the fact that Jerusalem is yet the focus of latter day prophecy is revealing:

(Zec 12:2-3) “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. {3} And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
And how about,

(Zec 14:12-13) “And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. {13} And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.”

And this:

(2 Pet 3:10-12) “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. {11} Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, {12} Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?”

Anything sound nuclear in these?


161 posted on 12/13/2009 9:40:39 PM PST by daniel1212 (Hear the word of the gospel, and believe", (Acts 15:7) + flee from those who hold another as supreme)
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