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Re: Interpretation
Posted By: Brunnen-G, on host 203.96.111.202
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 19:41:36
In Reply To: Re: Interpretation posted by LaZorra on Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 10:47:29:

I don't think your reasons have been very well thought out.

> And fourth, many people have had their lives turned around by the Bible. [...] I can't help but see a book that can do that as one *powerful* Book.

This doesn't mean it has to be divinely inspired, though. It just means that it's a powerful book which has had an effect on a lot of people. Many people have also had their lives turned around by the works of a novelist, a poet, or a new-age self-help guru.

> Every time the Bible speaks scientifically, it is correct, even though Science wouldn't know some of those facts to be true for centuries (and certainly the human authors of the Bible didn't).
> For instance, Job 28:25 talks about "the weight of the winds", yet atmospheric pressure wasn't discovered until the 1600's. Leviticus 17:11 says, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood." George Washington was bled to death by a surgeon.

Oh, please. Give the human race credit for a little intelligence. People in ancient times knew perfectly well that if you bled enough, you'd die of it. And you don't need even seventeenth-century science to discover wind has weight. You just have to stand outside on a windy day. Saying that the human authors of the Bible were not dumb as a brick does not prove that they were divinely inspired.

Your reasons may or may not be good ones, but it's hard to judge them on their merits when you provide examples that don't make sense.

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