Bible is the infallible word of God! Proof!

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The Bible isn't meant as a book of science, it in no way teaches science, it is however a book explaining what go has done by His choices.

Clearly it is not a reliable source of information, that's obvious.

God did not say that pi=3, nor did the man who penned the verse. Have you ever seen the molten sea?

No. Have you? That's right: no. The upshot of the math presented in the verse is that pi=3. If you lack the percipience to deduce that, that's not my problem, nor my misunderstanding.

Do you know what a cubit is and the possibilities of error it presents in a common number.

Yes. However, all figures in that verse are given in cubits, so this isn't a conversion inaccuracy. And you would have to presume that somewhere in the construction of that circle, they changed the size of the cubit, without mentioning it, in order for those numbers to fit.

That's an awful lot of gymnastics to avoid admitting error.

Many mathematical experts say it was common practice in ancient times to round up or down numbers. We actually do that most often today unless we need to give a very specific answer and thus pi= 3.1416 rounded down is 3.

Try making an O-ring with pi=3, and see how fast your engine seizes up once the oil has leaked out.

No one nowadays rounds pi down to three when they're building a circular construction. If you have examples of this happening, please post them; otherwise I'll file this in the More Horseshit from GodsBile file.

Lets see what 30 divided by pi is 9.549, rounded up is what, 10.

GC

Nice to see you remembered your fifth-grade math.

This is all just a fancy way of saying "The Bible got it wrong, but I'm going to believe anyway."

I've got more shots in the locker on the topic of factual errors in the Bible ... the book is riddled with them. God is clearly not omniscient, based upon what you yourself consider his divinely-inspired word.

How could a perfect god get so much stuff so fucking wrong?