30 pieces of silver
Lee Markland markland@rockisland.com
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 04:23:14 -0800 (00915128594, 3.0.5.32.19981231042314.00882a00@rockisland.com)
At 05:28 PM 12/31/98 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-12-31 17:09:18 EST, you write:
>
>Joe Alward:
>
>I also agree that the Bible teaches that god chose every word that appears in
>the Bible; that doesn't mean that every "inerrantist" accepts that, however,
>as Till noted. I also agree that "my" concept of inerrancy (not really mine,
>but my understanding of how some inerrantists think of it) puts the
>inerrantist at much greater risk in some cases, as in the "the sun had risen"
>verse in Mark (which you were the first to point out to me) which directly
>contradicts the notion that it was so dark out that John said it was "yet
>dark". In other cases, though, the inerrantist is helped by subscribing to
>the "Alward inerrancy" which has been rightly mocked; it answers such
>questions as, Why would God have written it THAT way?"
My Deceased Uncle (a Southern Baptist Preacher) would have handled the "yet
dark"
discrepancy, very simply.
"Another proof, of the wondrous nature of the lord, miracles never cease.".
You see, because this YVHV is omnipotent, all things to him are possible,
like creating light before there is a sun.
IOW, the Laws of Physics are of nothing to YVHV, because YVHV commands the
laws of physics.
On another forum I had a heated debate with a "scientist" who believes in
1. Jesus (he says that he saw or heard him in an hour of need).
2. Grey Aliens (saw them also, around his grandfathers bed for two weeks in
a row, yet).
3. Newton's mass gravity (a clear case of circular reasoning: gravity from
mass, mass from gravity) and Einstein's Relativities.
Somehow he reconciles all of these.
Lee