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- From: pandit@ssd.intel.com (Milind Pandit)
- Subject: Re: God exists. Proof within.
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:13:49 GMT
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- In article <C18L6p.9HM@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb) writes:
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- >The Koran also states some things that have been contradicted by physical
- >evidence. This isn't such a big deal, but the Koran shcolars can't give
- >any (not even an unreasonable one) as to why these contradictions exist.
- >Therefore I claim that the Koran is faulty, has been shown to be so, and
- >generalizing from this we can assume it has more than just the few mistakes
- >we have been able to show.
-
- Some other people have pointed out that the Bible indirectly states
- that pi = 3. Maybe its just a matter of interpretation, but then you
- must also allow wide interpretation of other Biblical concepts.
-
- What about some scriptures on Hindu mysticism? I have one which gives
- a lot of practical, useful advice on breathing and yogic postures,
- with miraculous but scientifically verified results, and eventually
- claims that God can be experienced through meditation. Again, there
- are some provably true statements and some unprovable statements, and
- some of the latter contradict the Bible.
-
- >[deleted]
-
- >Yet another problem is the fact that God had to revel the Bible to a man,
- >to be read by man. How does God explain to Moses the concept of Evolution,
- >DNA, one billion years, etc. And if he does, how do the people understand?
- >God would have to revel to everyone everywhere all the knowledge necessary.
- >It just can't be. It makes logical sence for the Bible to require translation
- >based on the knowledge of the individual. How can God write a book that never
- >goes out of date? How can he create a work that will relate to a group of
- >nomads in tents in the middle of the desert, and a group of people 5000
- >years later, typing news articles in a language that hasn't been created yet,
- >on boxes called computers? The only way the make the Bible timeless was to
- >make parts of it symbolic and parts of it tranlatable. It makes logical
- >sence for it to be this way, and it adds to the argument rather than taking
- >away from it.
-
- I agree that what makes the Bible (or any other text) timeless is that
- it can be interpreted. Can't the Biblical "definition" of God be
- similarly interpreted to mean a wide range of things, some of which
- obviously exist (goodness, love, human potential)?
-
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