30 pieces of silver
eric/cindy bach thebachs@fgi.net
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 05:25:53 -0600 (00915038753, 000601be33e7$4a6ef440$8c9ca7d0@bach)
Happy 1999, Joe.
>snip previous
>Joe Alward writes:
>Even that "explanation" won't cut it; the ONLY place in the Old Testament
>where anybody pays silver for a field is in Jeremiah 32:8-9. How could
anybody--even an inerrantist--believe that Matthew's mention of Jeremiah is
>just an amazing coincidence?
>What happened, I suspect, is that Matthew--or Matthew's source--remembered
two
>different stories from two different authors with names which sounded
alike, and blended them into one....>snip a lot< ........read Hebrew?
from Bach
Perhaps, maybe, probably, could have been, what if, how about the
possibility that............
You continually either want to overlook or forget the obvious, Joe......that
all of this stuff was supposedly written by men who had God breathing every
word into their ears as they wrote. "Inspired" is what inerrantists say
about the bible.
You are treating these authors like human historians with your apologetic
explanations. Human historians could and would make the kind of
errors/omissions, mistakes, vagueries etc. that you cite, Joe, yes!
You forget that YWHW is said to have helped them write all of this. Any
mistakes they made were mistakes that YWHW must have made......the same YWHW
who said HE was incapable of making mistakes.
You have been seriously studying the bible for over a year now, and all of
us who are a bit more experienced are seeing that you are becoming a better
errantist than you used to be. You still don't seem to understand that the
bible is all superstition and myth created by people who had their own
agendas. There was no real author named Matthew. Mark, Luke, or even John.
There wasn't even a Peter or a Paul, for that matter, in regard to the way
these writings have been transmitted.
Thanks to computers, "ink" and "paper" are being conserved. Time is still
being lost,
however, in refuting many of your arguments......arguments that ignore that
the bible is supposed to be the actual word of God almighty himself.
Regards,
Bones Bach
thebachs@fgi.net