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same deal with shakespeare. i think people have a jamesian english mental block.

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Really really I could care less, I understand what you say, if I don't I will ask you what you meant.

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The clothing analogy is a good one; here, our writing is our clothing. How you spell and write indicates how much you care about the overall impression of your competency that you give off.If you don't care about coming off as intelligent and competent and well-informed, then why should anyone else care about slogging through a post that is more difficult to read or understand?Again, we are not talking about occasional spelling, syntax, grammar, or punctuation errors. We are talking about consistent carelessness.If you don't care at all, why should I?This message has been edited by schrafinator, 02-04-2006 12:39 PM

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The bible is written very well, yet many people do not understand it's meaning.

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It's written as well as anything put together by a committee and edited and copied many dozens of times can be.It ain't no great piece of literature, that's for sure.

I disagree Schraf. There are parts that have true beauty.However, as an expository mechanism it is the shits. In addition, it needs a lot of editing. Is it a history or philosophy book? It jumps back and forth and muddles both.Is it an insite into the thoughts of the common folk of the time? Probably not.

Likely no insights either.Sometimes it incites.Cheers.

Erroneous post deletedThis message has been edited by nwr, 02-04-2006 08:27 PM

No, he was telling you to do a spelling check at all, any spelling check. Part of being 'written well' is to be comprehensible. If a lot of people do not understand the Bible, then it lacks in clarity, apparently. Actually, you couldn't. That's part of the point of this thread.This message has been edited by Parasomnium, 06-Feb-2006 09:30 AM

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.

Soley because people do not understand it?I guess that makes Einsteins theory a flop.

Well, considering that Einstein's papers on his theory were intended for fellow physicists, I think his theory was received very well. The Bible however, its intended audience being common people, demonstrably falls short, by your own admission.

SR and GR are totally clear. They are unambiguous. That doesn't mean they are easy to read. Everyone who works hard enough and is smart enough to understand the math comes to the same conclusion about the nature of spacetime and gravity (and all the other consequences of the theory)."Understandable" has multiple meanings. Something written in a language foreign to you can be totally unambiguous and understandable. Just not to you (yet).The Bible has been translated to many languages and studied over centuries and yet everywhere is argued over. EvC is a microcosm of that.

The purpose of Einstiens theory is differnet that the purpose the bible. THe bible is supposed to be communicating spiritual truth to people. Einstiens paper is to describe a model of the physical world that is not intutive to most people. It is geared to scientiest. The bible is supposed to be geard to the masses.

This topic is getting complex! Im gonna sit a spell until my head clears!

This it does but the Bible also tells us that even though it is meant for all, not all will pick it up. And that the choice to do so (or not) is theirs. Incidently, "falling short" IIRC is the translation of the original word which we now refer to as 'sin'. It derives from an old archery expression "fall short of the (Gods) target"If so, the Bible cannot fall short - a book cannot sin. Only man can do that.

That is not what I said or meant.
The point was that there must be an effort on the persons behalf trying to read it. Any book that has 3 million words in it, must take a little effort, just like Einstiens theory.But on the other hand, sometimes God just shows up, and you don't even have to read about it.

I guess because finding God is not as simple as math. There are 6 billion people in the world, each individual, and their path to find God all different. Takes quite the book to express God's word. But I think that is only half of it, the other half is up to people. I hold myself accountable to everyone I let down, which in here may be a lot of people, but look at what I am dealing with.I consider most people in here very smart. I consider myself smart, but not educated in the same things as most in here. But my own intellect (or the lack thereof) was what held me back from God sometimes. Not the words in the bible.Once I felt what I felt, the words became extremely clear to me.Narrow is the road. I'm not sayin I'm on it, but I am trying.