(July 12, 2010 at 3:51 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Go look up the explanations then cp and see if you can find one that supports your guess. I did, and I reported back to you what I found.
This just raises the problem (which I believe was discussed at length in another thread) of how we can know what is figurative and what is literal. Of course there will be attempted explanations of these apparent contradictions, but that's probably because people are so desperate to believe that this collection of desert scrawlings is the inerrant revealed word of God. A case in point: is the passage in Judges 1:19 (King James Version) which says, 'And the LORD was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron' figurative? It appears to suggest that God is not omnipotent, and there's no alternative interpretation that I can think of. Furthermore, many Biblical scholars now admit that there are irreconcilable contradictions between the various Gospel accounts of the crucifixion and resurrection. What makes this even more comical is that two of the three Apostles copied each other... and yet they still couldn't get it right! Divinely inspired my hat!
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'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
