RE: Sinners cannot understand the Bible!
September 20, 2009 at 12:44 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2009 at 12:45 pm by Ryft.)
(September 20, 2009 at 12:20 pm)Retorth Wrote: I do not know how the Bible can be defined as 'accurate' when the words used to describe it can seemingly have more than one meaning ...
The same way the accuracy of ANY text can determined: responsible exegetical analysis.
(September 20, 2009 at 12:20 pm)Retorth Wrote: All this aside, however, no matter how you [critically analyze]—reference, define, convert, interpret or what have you—the Bible, it still contains a lot of flaws. It is written by man, after all, so it's no surprise. I rest my case.
Through critical analysis we just dispeled one supposed flaw. Are you suggesting there are flaws that are, as if by definition, impossible to dispel?
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)