RE: Logical fallacies in the Bible?
June 10, 2012 at 10:54 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2012 at 10:55 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(June 10, 2012 at 10:45 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:You hear a lot about contradictions in the Bible, but what about fallacious reasoning within the "holy scriptures"? I tried searching the web for some examples and couldn't find any.
Perhaps have a go at actually READING the Torah and the New Testament, or look a bit harder on line.
You will find logical fallacies as well as contradictions.
Just off hand; one logical fallacy from the New Testament: A woman was found guilty of committing adultery. Under Mosaic law, the penalty was death by stoning. Jesus allegedly gets her off with "let those among you without sin cast the first stone". That's a common logical fallacy called 'tu quoque' or 'appeal to hypocrisy'. In essence it's a strawman; I may not use your crimes to justify or excuse mine.
Um, I have read most of the Bible growing up as a Christian but I wasn't looking for fallacies obviously. Lol.
Good find too on that verse. A problem though is that passage happens to be one of the passages that wasn't originally part of the Bible. Even many conservative Christians accept that story was added later.
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).
