RE: Chat with a creationist
May 4, 2012 at 9:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 4, 2012 at 9:13 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(May 4, 2012 at 8:44 pm)Abishalom Wrote: ...
Sir you're confusing something being "consistent" with something being "identical". I said it is consistent with the OT.
Here's the translation...
Quote:1' you shall not do [it], but worship the [Lord].
2' Judge the sla[ve] and the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an]
3' [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the infant / plead for the po[or and]
4' the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king.
5' Protect the po[or and] the slave / [supp]ort the stranger.
The message present here is consistent throughout the bible. Here are a few verses corroborating this theme...
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/poor.htm
This is not exhaustive as it focuses mainly on the poor. But this should be sufficient enough to support my point.
No, I'm not confusing the two. I made it quite clear that I distinguished between consistent and identical. Just because the message might be consistent (not identical) does not prove that it came from any OT books as we know it today, and that those OT books that it's consistent with must then predate that 10th century pottery. What if both the OT books and the pottery have another older source or sources in common?
As I've said before, I'm not knowledgable in this field, and I could very well be wrong. It's just that saying that a fragment proves the existence of some books of the Bible being from the 10th century BC seems like a huge leap to me.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
