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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Subject: Re: Inconsistency in the bible
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:21:35 GMT
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- In article <86220@netnews.upenn.edu> jmv@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Jean-Marc Vezien) writes:
- }In article <1992Aug14.160558.2618@linus.mitre.org>, m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
- }> In article <1992Aug14.090144.9132@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> diarmuid@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Diarmuid Pigott) writes:
- }> }The bible is an historical document, regardless of the existence/non-
- }> }existence of God.
- }>
- }> Then why are there things mentioned for which there is evidence that it did
- }> NOT occur as stated? Wouldn't that case doubt on the things for which there
- }> is no historical evidence one way or another? Maybe it is so and maybe it
- }> isn't.
- }
- }James, I think what he meant was that as long as the bible
- }was written by someone (lots of writers probably) in the past,
- }it is an historical document. As for the relevance of its content,
- }I would use it in a profane way, as clues to find out when each
- }part was written for example, but surely not as historical evidences
- }per se.
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- Ah. A historical document much like the Illiad or "Why the elephant has a
- trunk"? I understand that. Perhaps a better word would by "hysterical"?
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