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Isnt it logical to assume that the earliest biblical texts are the closest to the original and thus as close as possible to the actual word of God as we can get without having access to that first bible?Believe me, if it's pretty good because God did it, it's more than good enough for us.
That's like saying I won't believe this apple in my hand is good, until I see a bad apple in the bunch first.
Why do you want to see contradictory evidence in order to validate non-contradiction???
And if you find one type of apple that's fresh, and all the other types are rotten, which ones would you eat?
It has, huh?
Well, let's take a look at one of the most controversial passages and see:
I'd say God is pretty good at preserving His Word.
Isnt it logical to assume that the earliest biblical texts are the closest to the original and thus as close as possible to the actual word of God as we can get without having access to that first bible?
Yeah, I don't think we should be talking apples here in this forum. I'm feeling uncomfortable.
Where was it when St. Clement of Alexandria was writing about the Trinity in 200AD?
God didn't intervene whenever someone decided to distort His Word --- He lets the tares and wheat grow together.
Phlogiston was an early hypothesis to explain phenomona such as combustion and rusting. It was falsified before 1800. I don't where you are getting this idea about oxygen and no mass since it was the discovery that material increased in mass when burned that led to the falsification of the phlogiston hypothesis. On way that science works is by falsification of alternative hypotheses. Hypotheses such as phlogiston, spontaneous generation and the global flood were falsifed long ago and won't be coming back.Stay away from phlogiston, too; it causes spontaneous generation in an atmosphere where oxygen has no mass.
Why not? I thought the whole basis for Biblical infallibility is that God has magically preserved the Bible from distortion and error for the last couple of millenia -- else how could we know that it's the genuine article?
Now that we know that God doesn't give a whit about whether "His Word" gets mangled, where's the basis for claiming historical infallibility?
Why not? I thought the whole basis for Biblical infallibility is that God has magically preserved the Bible from distortion and error for the last couple of millenia -- else how could we know that it's the genuine article?
Now that we know that God doesn't give a whit about whether "His Word" gets mangled, where's the basis for claiming historical infallibility?
Hypotheses such as phlogiston, spontaneous generation and the global flood were falsifed long ago and won't be coming back.
If you bake a cake and preserve it, and other people bring in pies, your cake is still there, its just surrounded by pies.
So if AV wants to believe one over the other then how does he know the inclusive manuscript is superior?
Hypotheses such as phlogiston, spontaneous generation and the global flood were falsifed long ago and won't be coming back.
Phlogiston has been replaced by oxidation which is pretty basic chemistry these days, pasteur destroyed spontaneous generation(flies are not born from rotting meat, they are born of flies), and there is no geologic evidence for a global flood (if such a thing occured, there would be OBVIOUS geologic evidence). So yes, all of these ideas are dead and buried.Don't count on it:
[bible]Luke 17:26[/bible]
So you're saying man is ultimately responsible for what's in the Bible? That doesn't sound like divine influence to me. It sounds more like George Bush and science. Discard what you don't like and flaunt what you do. If nothing suits you, make up your own.Because they weren't used. Christians would start to read them, then discard them as not being the Word of God.
I used to drive a Comet.
Can you spot the tares?
- I used to drive a Ford.
- I photographed a comet.
- I photographed Halley's Comet.
- I used to have a photograph of Edmund Halley.
- I drove a Comet at one time.
This means that YOU have to have a way to KNOW which is the Wheat and which is the Tare.
Once again --- God lets the tares grow among the wheat.
He guards His Word, but lets other write what they want to write.
If you bake a cake and preserve it, and other people bring in pies, your cake is still there, its just surrounded by pies.
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