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#657104
Smells Like a Monkey
Right - thousands of years of copying and translating the bible by hand while your native tongue slowly evolves allows your holy book to be infallible, on top of the fact that the people that were copying it were slowing losing political power and were desperately trying to hold onto it. They wouldn't be tempted to make slight alterations in order to make their cause look better.
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8/28/2008 2:34:42 PM
#657107
Mister Spak
The koran says the bible is a fib.
8/28/2008 2:36:00 PM
#657139
Bored One-time Poster
"Bible difficulties, yes; errors, no"
What, exactly, is a "difficulty?" If you can explain it without using the word "error" or any of its synonyms, I'll believe you.
8/28/2008 2:48:11 PM
#657140
Ambrielle
Bible 'difficulties'???
8/28/2008 2:48:14 PM
#657144
Mr Smith
There are no errors (Bible difficulties, yes; errors, no)
Is the difficulty that it's pretty much all bullshit?
8/28/2008 2:52:44 PM
#657151
Empress
So the fact that there are two completely different Genesis stories is a "difficulty" but not an "error". Riiiiiight.
8/28/2008 2:54:21 PM
#657161
Allegory for Jesus
"What we need to know about God and Jesus is written in the Bible."
You just blew my mind.
"There are no errors (Bible difficulties, yes; errors, no)"
If by "Bible difficulties" you mean contradictions of scientific knowledge and itself, then I wholeheartedly agree.
8/28/2008 3:05:30 PM
#657169
Ramble81
"Bible difficulties"? Is that anything like a "Wardrobe malfunction"?
8/28/2008 3:13:09 PM
#657176
mockeldritch
Kent Hovind didn't lie about his income, his form just contained a few "earnings difficulties"...much like his worldview contains some "reality difficulties"
8/28/2008 3:18:46 PM
#657181
emau99
The only "difficulty" comes from the fact that you're trying to ignore the errors.
8/28/2008 3:19:41 PM
#657182
GreenEyedLilo
I love how she talks about people trying to "excuse their sin."
I've encountered Christine before; she really is that much of an arrogant bitch.
8/28/2008 3:22:03 PM
#657190
Headache
The only "difficulty" with the bible is that you morons think this collection of 2000+ year old goat herder and camel driver scifi books are about reality.
8/28/2008 3:25:39 PM
#657196
Philbert McAdamia
"Errors"? In the BIBLE??? Pffsshhh - surely you jest, sir.
Perhaps a kerfuffle or two, maybe. Chalk 'em up to printing typos.
8/28/2008 3:29:20 PM
#657201
Horsefeathers
"There are no errors (Bible difficulties, yes; errors, no)"
So four legged insects are just "difficulties" because nobody's ever found an insect and, indeed, anything with four legs can't be classified as an insect. And here I thought it was an error.
Thanks for clearing that up.
"and the “argument from silence” claim that some use to excuse their sin doesn’t hold any water."
God incarnates himself as a human, bums around for 30 odd years performing miracles of various sorts, pisses off the Jewish priesthood and the Romans, is publicly crucified after a personal audience with Pilate and then resurrects himself after a weekend nap in a tomb, wanders around for a while talking to his disciples and then ascends into the fucking sky and nobody notices save the authors of four anonymous texts; two of which appear to be copied in good portion from a single source document.
Right. Doesn't hold water at all.
8/28/2008 3:30:57 PM
#657208
Ozzie
There are no bible difficulties for me. I don't believe what it says, not difficult at all.
8/28/2008 3:36:14 PM
#657225
Illuminatalie
Sure, the bible is infallible! Time for your meds.
8/28/2008 3:51:11 PM
#657229
Educate a poor ignorant soul here - what is the argument from silence?
8/28/2008 3:53:22 PM
#657247
aaa
And Quran?
8/28/2008 4:04:13 PM
#657288
Amanda
It's not an error, it's a difficulty!
8/28/2008 4:57:18 PM
#657327
Ah, here we go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_silence
8/28/2008 5:41:26 PM
#657328
GigaGuess
@ #693901
I assume it's the "For someone that was so active in the Old Testament, God seems to be awful quiet nowadays" or some variation therein.
8/28/2008 5:42:48 PM
#657335
Old Viking
Try the "difficulties, yes; errors, no" line on the ITS sometime.
8/28/2008 5:47:11 PM
#657343
TheOutsider
If you have to use convoluted pretzel logic to explain it, then it's an error.
8/28/2008 5:59:57 PM
#657386
Ash
Quite liberal with the wite-out, aren't you?
8/28/2008 6:46:45 PM
#657422
Grigadil
Here's an "argument from logic": nobody really needs to know all that garbage. Just a few simple rules to keep in mind, all based upon the Golden Rule in one way or another.
8/28/2008 7:44:14 PM
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