The Inerrancy of the Bible

36 Christians Ok let us open on this onePlease show chapter and verse of where Jesus ever said this.

36Christians Regardless the book is in error.Acts was wriiten long after by the physician Luke so he cannot have known what was said.He could only deal with what was,to him,history,since the earliest year for acts has been argued to be A.D 61.You must need s revise your original statement here as expressed in your OP It is not completely perfect or this error could not have occured.

36ChristiansI know you have been inundated and you doubtless missed my previous post, however I would ask for you guys to try this onee on for size. The gold is melted and formed into a calf idol. Who wishes to show us the how this action was accomplished?{burning a golden calf into powder}? Such a feat is impossible by any means they could have possibly acquired while in exile in the desert.Gold has a boiling Point of 2807.0 C (3080.15 K, 5084.6 F) which would be necessary to reduce it to a substance that could be ground.To give you some grasp of this propane burns at a maximum flame temperature in air of 3595 deg F.This is 1500 degrees F short of the necessary temperature.It would require the resources of an oxy-acetylene torch to attain the necessary temperature for this.

Tom It does say they burned it in the fire and ground it to powder so,yes, the did one does follow the other.

ArachnophiliaYep, pity they did not mention it participating.

Incognito Incognito,my boy,there are obvious delineations between what is considered miracles and what is the act of men. The gold burning ,grinding ,and strawing was accomplished by Moses as it plainly ststes to anyone not intent on deflecting from the issue.Perhaps you do not wish to have such impossibilities posed to you as you have some emotional stake in maintaining a lie.Miracles have the inexplicable property of dissolving away under critical examination,go figure. Not at all. I arrived here due to sexual relations between my Mom and Dad.It was not in the least miraculous,but a process of nature,one I have participated in and as a result have a family of my own whom I love dearly. On a sterner note it does indeed disprove the innerancy of the bible since such a feat is not possible in the way it was described.That you have a difficulty with laws of physics is fortunately a problem of yours and not mine.I do not suspect you will even own up to far greater errors in the bible without fuming in indignation as opposed to rational discussion.

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A centipede was happy quite, until a toad in fun
Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which?'
This raised his doubts to such a pitch
He fell distracted in the ditch
Not knowing how to run.

Incognito Since you have a science/engineering background perhaps you could propose a process whereby impurities could get into gold and allow it to be ground to powder?Perhaps you could explain the reason for putting it into the fire in the first place if not to melt it at least?Perhaps you can explain how they burnt gold in order to grind it to a powder?The melting point of gold is 1947 degrees F.Show us the means of and evidence for the ability of nomadic desert people to produce this high a temperature.Such a task should be childs play for you and the best thing is it uses the hard sciences.Have fun.

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A centipede was happy quite, until a toad in fun
Said, "Pray, which leg comes after which?'
This raised his doubts to such a pitch
He fell distracted in the ditch
Not knowing how to run.

IncognitoA nomad people on the move in the desert find enough fuel to piss away on the melting of gold to form a calf and then find some more to melt it again? I am sure they had no problem with that.Atfter all wood is plentiful there eh?We will probably have to continue this in another thread as we are coming up to post # 300 where we need to shut down.Talk to you then perhaps.

Incognito Then you will not mind providing the evidence pertainent to the time period and location will you? Speculate all you want,however I do not believe there is any evidence of any such Exodus having occured. I need not,I hope, have to explain the destruction inherent in the moving of the sun backwards ten degrees.This event,is not to my knowledge, recored anywhere else and such a staggeringly odd incident would not have gone unnoticed.