(March 13, 2014 at 12:00 am)Aractus Wrote:(March 11, 2014 at 1:45 pm)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:Jacob when I was in kindergarten, we were out of Blue paint - and I asked the teacher "how do you mix blue paint?" She said "you can't mix it from other colours, it's a primary colour". I believed this lie until I was in the 10th or 11th grade. You in fact make blue by mixing equal parts cyan and magenta. You make Red by mixing equal parts magenta and yellow. And you make Green by mixing equal parts cyan and yellow.
So the teacher should have said to me "I don't know how to make blue paint", instead of making the wrong assumption that it couldn't be done or the assumption that it is somehow a "primary colour".
There is evidence that the Romans of the era called certain purple shades "red". But ultimately, the colour is in the eye of the witness. No object in the universe truly possess a colour property, I suspect you may actually know this.
Jesus stands trial before dawn - when it's still dark. We, like all mammals, can't see colour at night since our rods are active and not our cones. Or more precisely, depending on the lighting conditions we can perceive some colour but can't discern it very well. In these conditions a BLUE robe could be easily mistaken to be Red, let alone a Purple Robe.
You defend God's divine intervention in writing and preserving a perfect text... by appealing to man's fallibility.
Huh?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza