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- From: zell@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph Zell)
- Subject: Re: God exists. Proof within.
- Message-ID: <C1DF94.CG1@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:26:49 GMT
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- jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb) writes:
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- >pandit@ssd.intel.com (Milind Pandit) writes:
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- >>In article <C17y16.Jt6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jlamb@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Richard Lamb) writes:
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- >>As promised, no flames, but some legitimate questions:
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- >>Assuming some Biblical statements are provably true, do you think that
- >>the *majority* of the Bible is provably true? (If 99% of the
- >>statements, or even 51% are provably true, then it is more convincing
- >>for the rest than if only 10% are provably true.)
-
- By the way, another interesting fact that I heard from a guy who works for
- Campus Crusade for Christ as an outdoor evengelist. (First name Cliffe,
- don't know the last name) He said there was some statician guy someplace
- that was looking at the prophecies about Jesus. There are about 430 of them.
- He computed the odds of 50 of them all referring to one person in history are
- same as if you covered the state of Texas with coins, took a coin, threw it back
- mixed up ALL the coins in Texas, and drew the same one out. And that was only
- for 50 of them to refer to the same person. Not a direct proof that God exists,
- but you start adding up the ones that you know are true (He died on a cross, he
- was whipped before he died, etc, a lot of this written many years before the
- Roman Empire came into existance, and it makes you wonder.
- Joe
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- Joe Zell * "I knew Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was my
- zell@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu * friend..."
- * -Ronald Reagan, 1992 GOP convention speech
-