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To: ambrose
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think anyone "knows" how old the bible is.

There is no indication that the written version is over 3,000 years old. What language and script would it have been written in? There was no Hebrew, there was no arabic script.

To have a large body of history passed orally for thousands of years without error in transcription or translation is preposterous. Epic stories get seriously distorted in a few hundred years. Oh, I forgot, God Did It. The universal answer for the non thinker.

So9

11 posted on 03/19/2004 11:16:23 AM PST by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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To: Servant of the 9
The universal answer for the non thinker

Hmph! To have faith does not automatically mean one is devoid of all reason. Some of humanity's greatest thinkers were also people of faith.

14 posted on 03/19/2004 11:29:14 AM PST by Ignatz (Helping people be more like me since 1960)
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To: Servant of the 9
In other words, you don't "know"... you're using speculation and supposition, which is fine.. just wanted to be clear on that.
16 posted on 03/19/2004 11:33:23 AM PST by ambrose ("I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" - John F. al-Query)
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To: Servant of the 9
To have a large body of history passed orally for thousands of years without error in transcription or translation is preposterous. Epic stories get seriously distorted in a few hundred years.

I don't speak Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Arabic, etc., and I don't have original copies of what was originally written to be included in the Bible, nor do I have copies of the oral histories that existed before people began to put them down in writing, and so I may not be able to back up everything in the Bible to the satisfaction of you and others like you. I do, however, have my faith and I see nothing disapproving that much of it didn't happen the way it was written.

Before you point out that we are reading a translation of translation when reading the Bible in English, or that it was written over several years by multiple authors, save it, I've heard it before. It maybe true, but in no way does it diminish the lessons to be learned.

28 posted on 03/19/2004 12:02:31 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: Servant of the 9
"If I knew Him, I'd be Him."

But I suspect that rather than its myriad details from various creation accounts, God's hope in us to do good is by the Biblical story's moral.

Please excuse another "non-thinker".

29 posted on 03/19/2004 12:04:47 PM PST by onedoug
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