Hey Stimbo
For an answer to those questions you need to reference the source I cited, otherwise you are offerring a contradiction without confronting the information. I promise you that your questions are answered fully there.
This book [the bible] wasn't written by God, or in language that humans of the time would not understand, because the message was complete without furthering their knowledge. Yes we have their frame of reference... primitive as it might have been... but that doesn't matter at all... because it's the message we're interested in. The context we need to understand.
The victorians would have told it differently, as would every other age and culture. If we wrote it today our distant decendants would find it ridicuous.
If an exactly correct scientific answer by [every] current standard was the subject, then we might have some reason to be skeptical. But as the knowledge of the culture relating the information is irrelevant to the subject, we can't dismiss the subject on their lack of magical skills of premonition.
For an answer to those questions you need to reference the source I cited, otherwise you are offerring a contradiction without confronting the information. I promise you that your questions are answered fully there.
This book [the bible] wasn't written by God, or in language that humans of the time would not understand, because the message was complete without furthering their knowledge. Yes we have their frame of reference... primitive as it might have been... but that doesn't matter at all... because it's the message we're interested in. The context we need to understand.
The victorians would have told it differently, as would every other age and culture. If we wrote it today our distant decendants would find it ridicuous.
If an exactly correct scientific answer by [every] current standard was the subject, then we might have some reason to be skeptical. But as the knowledge of the culture relating the information is irrelevant to the subject, we can't dismiss the subject on their lack of magical skills of premonition.
