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And the evidence for this is...? Let's see... Your first sentence makes no sense. The second is evidence that SARS-CoV-2 didn't come from the lab because it doesn't match any virus known to have been present there. The third is fabrication -- we don't know any such thing. The final sentence is...

By the way, if anyone is interested in people trying to do biblically-based theology that doesn't simply dismiss evolution, I'm currently reading an interesting collection published by Eerdmans, called Evolution and the Fall. It's got contributions from a wide range of theological traditions.

No, the scientific evidence suggests strongly that it spread to humans from the Wuhan market. They could have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 or with any of an unknown number of other coronaviruses.

Intriguing idea, but lots of questions remain. How many pathogenic viruses have this particular mechanism for suppressing the RNA-based antiviral defenses? How many have multiple such mechanisms, and will it be possible to disable them all? A key question is how long the protection lasts. Unless...

Yes, it's best not to let facts interfere with your conspiracy theories.

No one knows. Certainly more than one person.

Your response doesn't seem to have anything to do with the point in question. Do teachers who have been called by God -- something Paul says God does to equip the church -- do those teachers ever make mistakes in their teaching?

I don't know what you mean by 'the Mitzvah'. The word 'mitzvah' means any commandment and also (in contemporary Jewish usage) a good deed. What specific commandment are you talking about? No. Why do you ask -- I've never suggested they were. And why won't you answer the question? Those teachers...

Paul wrote that God appointed teachers in the church (Romans 12:7, I Cor 12:28). If you agree with him, do you think those preachers and other teachers who were appointed by God (never mind any others) never make any mistakes in what they preach and teach?

Okay, I did laugh out loud at that one. Both parts, in fact -- that I don't already know what 'mitzvah' means and that I haven't read extensively on the authorship of the Pentateuch. Have you read anything at all about the Bible that wasn't written by a fundamentalist? It's clear that you and I...

So Paul was mistaken about God appointing teachers in the church? That's your answer. You aren't in a position to tell me what I meant by what I wrote.

Which is from God but which is expressed through their human imagination, i.e both of your possibilities are true, even though you posed them as mutually exclusive. The first part entails the same issue as above, while the second part is something that you invented and that I really doubt you...

You don't seem to have understood the answer. Remember, the question was about possibilities, not about what anyone in particular believes.

Or they came from man's imagination as prompted by God. Or they came from theological insights from God expressed by human authors in their own culturally appropriate idiom. Or they came directly from God but were later extensively modified by editors. Or they came from Satan. Or Genesis 1 and...

Also, attempts at falsification are a pretty small part of science as actually practiced.

No, I'm saying that people became followers of Christ without first deciding that their source of information was infallible. I'm sorry, but your argument doesn't seem coherent here. I thought you were claiming that you had to know that the Biblical accounts were without error because otherwise...

Where that someone else often (after the very early years) hadn't known Jesus in person. ETA: and in any case, I don't think anyone had to decide that those who were testifying were infallible in order to be trusted.

Your way seems to have very little in common with the Biblical picture of how people came to follow Jesus, before or after his death. From my perspective, it doesn't work at all. The books of the Bible are (to me) clearly not entirely reliable and they're certainly not on the face of it reliable...

That's fine. Not that I agree with all of it, but I have no objection to any of it.

By believing and being saved. How do you decide what to believe? About anything? Whatever that is, do that. I see this kind of argument quite often and I've never understood it. How does it make sense to decide the Bible is 100% accurate about everything written in it in order to believe...