Where did Josiah die?
Ed Tyler etyler@truman.edu
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:25:24 -0600 (00922825524, 4.1.19990330082412.00a3dd90@pop.truman.edu)
At 06:26 PM 3/29/99 -0600, aaron rainwater wrote:
>|aaron|
>First of all...Please (this is to all of you), do not CC any messages
>on this subject to Mr. Sherman. I will do so myself, and will
>trim and unite whatever I need to in order to get refutations to
>him. He expressed a lack of time and space in order to respond
>to many emails, so I gently ask for all of you to allow them to
>go through me.
>
>>>> |aaron|
>>>> Let's stick to one problem at a time...
>>
>>>SHERMAN
>>>Here's a problem. Share with me a Bible contradiction you found
>>>for yourself and not from the list or antiapologists. Pray and ask
>>>God to show you one for me to refute so we can get to the next
>>>stage! I am not giving up on you!
>
>>ED
>>Here's an absurdity, not a problem. The Bible is one of the most
>>thoroughly studied books in human history, and there is not a single
>>one of the hundreds or thousands of contradictions and errors in it
>>that hasn't already been dealt with thoroughly and published.
>>
>>In other words, Sherman has demanded of Aaron something that
>>cannot possibly be done.
>>
>>Of course Aaron has thoroughly demolished Sherman's hokey
>>explanation of Josiah's death in another post, so Sherman has to
>>engage in obfuscation by bringing up this completely phoney ploy
>>of challenging Aaron to accomplish the impossible.
>
>|aaron|
>To be fair, I think Sherman may have meant a contradiction that I
>first noticed myself. Past that explanation, you are correct in
>labeling such a suggestion as absurd. If Mr. Sherman wants to
>discuss a biblical error that I found all by my lonesome, he can wait
>until this one has been resolved, and then I will present such an
>error to him.
Ed
But what difference does it make whether you notice it first independently
or if someone else calls your attention to it? It's still a contradiction,
right?