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To: sevry

No they're not. If they were the whole picture we wouldn't still need the Bible. Even inspired by God He still had our mediocre languages to work with, maybe He should have given us a new language to go with them, then they could be perfect. But as it is they can't be, they're the inspired word of God, as filtered through fallible humans and recorded in our rather mediocre languages. It's like asking Da Vinci to make a masterpiece on a cave wall using only burnt sticks for pigment and tool, I'm sure the outcome would be the finest cave painting ever, but it would still just be a cave painting.

Because vague, inconsistent and incomplete is how the scientific method acheives clear consistent and mostly complete (science is never complete, there's alway a new rock to look under). This is how science has worked since the first Greeks monitored the shadow of a tree to try to figure out the size of the earth, this is how science will continue to work until God finally decides to hand us a nice manual, which I doubt He'll ever do because He seems to like us figuring stuff out on our own, if not then why did He make us so curious about everything.


381 posted on 01/21/2005 10:02:29 AM PST by discostu (mime is money)
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To: discostu
No they're not.

To my - the four principal Creeds of The Church are the dogmatic statement of the Faith. And:

they're the inspired word of God, as filtered through fallible humans

People. And that is the 'filter' for the inspired Word of God. You question even that now?

until God finally decides to hand us a nice manual, which I doubt He'll ever do

Consider the four principal Creeds of The Church as your Table of Contents. It's not unknown for catechisms and lengthy treatises to be organized in that way.

388 posted on 01/21/2005 10:40:08 AM PST by sevry
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