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To: smvoice; MarkBsnr; Dutchboy88; boatbums; metmom; caww
Promoting books with errors like the following doesn’t add to confidence in the truthfulness of Christianity.

Tobit claims to have been alive when Jeroboam revolted in 931 B.C. and 210 years later when Assyria conquered Israel in 721 B.C. Then it says in Tobit 14 that he was 112 when he died. Oops!

In Judith we find an error of who Nebuchadnezzar was King of.

Judith 1:1 While King Nebuchadnezzar was ruling over the Assyrians from his capital city of Nineveh,

Nebuchadnezzar didn’t rule over the Assyrians he was King over Babylonia.

2 Kings 24:1 While Jehoiakim was king, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia invaded Judah

Why would anyone rely on books with obvious errors? The Holy Spirit inspired books have never been shown to have errors. The Catholic Church uses books with obvious errors to try to prop up their own errors but even they won’t actually call them scripture.

When someone relies on books with obvious error is it any wonder they get other portions of scripture wrong?

256 posted on 03/24/2012 6:34:47 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear
"Why would anyone rely on books with obvious errors?"

Do you reject all books that I can demonstrate historical errors in or will you concede that the genre of Biblical historicity was not a precise science like modern history and archeology? Historical flaws can be found within Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, Numbers? Kings? Chronicles, and numerous other Books, but whether you recognize this, or ignore or rationalize them away, they nevertheless remain inerrant.

Accounts in the Old Testament relied upon a modification of the nonessential portions of the message to preserve and protect the sacred content within. The Old Testament is an oral tradition. In the Old Testament we often find a lack of attention to strict chronological sequence, frequent inclusion of mnemonic gimmicks, we see few attempts to demonstrate the reliability of their accounts by identifying sources or footnoting, the lack of a standard or common calendar, we see reconstructed speeches done out of necessity since they were given extemporaneously, modifications numbers, dates and ages meant to characterize rather than accurately quantify their objects because the accuracy of the numbers is secondary to the message.

285 posted on 03/25/2012 10:15:52 AM PDT by Natural Law (If you love the Catholic Church raise your hands, if not raise your standards.)
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