RE: What would an error in the bible even show?
July 20, 2012 at 2:04 am
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2012 at 2:06 am by Welsh cake.)
Quote:What would an error in the bible even show?Well that depends on the nature of the error doesn't it?
If its a fatal error, a massive Bible blunder, then its irreconcilable and no apologist can hope to make excuses for it that will stand.
Take the story of Jonah for example. Its biologically impossible for the biggest whales to swallow people. Its biologically impossible for anyone to survive three days inside a cetacean or any other large life-form if it were possible for that matter. You'd die from asphyxiation long before crushing pressure or the gastric fluids would start to damage you.
If Jonah didn't submit to god in the belly of the whale, and didn't turn back to the city of Nineveh to prophesy against it, the entire story, as my old RE teacher surmised when I was still a Christian, is nothing but an allegory.
(July 20, 2012 at 12:27 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote: It seems to me that it wouldn't show that Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead or that God did not work through miracles as it is written in the bible.Why am I not surprised you think that?
You don't exercise any critical thinking or care about the truth. You just want to believe and take it all on faith, which is not a path to truth, just gullibility.
So why even beg the question Jeff if you're convinced Jesus Christ is real?
