2 Chron and Ezra
JAlw@aol.com JAlw@aol.com
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 13:48:29 EST (00915151709, 3da66251.368bc6fd@aol.com)
In a message dated 98-12-31 04:28:54 EST, you write:
<< Subj: Re: 2 Chron and Ezra
Date: 98-12-31 04:28:54 EST
From: markland@rockisland.com (Lee Markland)
Sender: owner-errancy@infidels.org
To: errancy@infidels.org
At 09:40 PM 12/30/98 EST, you wrote:
>Lee Markland:
>
> Has anyone noticed that the inerrant hand of god that guided the writers of
> his tome, didn't do a good job of proofreading and wasn't able to keep the
> story straight.
> The last two verses of 2d Chronicles (22:23) are identical to the lst Three
> verses of the next book (Ezra 1:3)
>======================
>Joe Alward:
>
>I don't understand what is not being kept "straight", nor do I understand
why
>an example of repetition is evidence of error, if that's what is being
>suggested.
Simple it is further evidence that the Babble is not inerrant, for such a
perfect inerrant work would not have such sloppy workmanship, or did YVHV
stutter?
It's obvious that those whose hand was "miraculously guided" by their YVHV,
couldn't remember what they were doing, or did a lousy job of proofreading.
Lee
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Joe Alward:
You're new to the list, I think, so you probably don't know that I have
errancy standards which are different from those of most of the errantists on
this list. It's not enough that I be convinced that I've found evidence that
the bible authors were sloppy, or in error. I've seen a mountain of such
evidence. Over the past year, however, I've noticed that some errantists are
just as zealous as inerrantists in promoting their belief. Errantists
sometimes assert that a particular verse is an "obvious" error, as you have
done above, and then invest an awful lot of emotional energy and weeks of time
in defending such belief, when, in fact, the evidence for the "error" was
ambiguous, at best. Such "errors" should be ignored, in my view, in order to
give the errantist time to spend on more the more obvious contradictions.
The passages in 2 Chron and Ezra seem, as you suggest, seem to be redundant;
but, to the inerrantist, that is a certain indication that God told the same
story in the same words to two different authors. Thus, the alleged
"sloppiness" is too easily harmonized by the inerrantist, so we should not
spend time on it; there are more important things to discuss.