(Addressing a Biblical contradiction on King Jehoiachin's age.)
Actually, when you say that a person is 18 years old, you say that this person has lived at least for the last 18 years. So, you can say that a 18 year old king is also a 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 year old.
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Actually, no, that isn't what you say. Either that, or every fortysomething who says in a personal ad that he or she is 24 is being honest. By the way, does the same principle apply to waist sizes?
No. Just admit they made a mistake. Stop making an already ridiculous book more ridiculous. Seriously. Before coming here I had no idea that God had built an ice shell around the world, that Adam and Eve had every gene for every possible race in their DNA, that Noah made wine by sheer accident, that people can be any age they've already been, that before the flood everyone lived to be 900 and that Velociraptors were vegan, that the Grand Canyon was caused by a flood in five minuets, and that Greenland was caused by a part of the ocean floor flipping over during the Flood.
There's no contradiction in the original Hebrew scripture. The error is in the KJB translation. They translated the same Hebrew word, "shemoneh", as eighteen in the one verse and eight in the other. Unlike the KJB-only loonies who insist the KJB is perfect and God-inspired, the translators themselves admitted there may be occasionally religiously-insignificant errors in their work.
That has got to be the worst backwards (il)logic I have ever read.
go home, and tell your parents to try to have an intelligent one next time?
@John
Oh, and I suppose that you'll have a copy of that original Hebrew manuscript handy for us, eh?
Huh?
Oh yeah, I've lived for 24 years, but I'm really just 4. Maybe I should go back to kindergarten. Screw college, naps and fingerpainting rock!
Do you pick whichever one you like, or do you add some or all of them together? I can be 5,976 y.o. WooHoo!
Hmmmm.... I see.
So, by that reckoning you must also be an "anker", a "nker", a "ker", and "er" and a "r".
Thanks for clearing that up for us.
C'mon, folks, give Didac some credit, for being able to count backwards.
Other than that, the concept of time, or the passage thereof, is meaningless to this one.
I wish they wouldn't use "Actually...". False advertising or something.
Great! Thanks to your logic, I'm going to start a chain groceries that specializes in mislabeling spoiled food as "fresh." The milk may be 6 months old, but it's *also* 2 days old, just like label says!
I'll be sure to set them up right next to fundie churches.
So, no one’s old enough to drink because we’re all 19 years old?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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