As silly as this sounds this is the first time that the penny has finally dropped.
If you look at the verse from the perspective that it cannot contradict, then the same verse can be read without incorporating a new chronology into it.
In other words, the Bible has no contradictions or errors because you assume that as a flat given. Then when there is an obvious clear contradiction you simple say that it can NOT be there because you have already assumed that it can't be.
I actually, believe it or not, never realized that this was the mind set of literalists before!!
A totally circular chain of reasoning that is so screamingly obviously falacious that I just never managed to see it before.
Live and learn I guess.
And the purpose of pointing this out may have escaped you until now. The reason is for pointing the contradictions out is to help move the literalists off their scientifically ridiculous and theologically weak postition. A position from which they try very hard to do great damage to the educational system of the US (and even other countries). If they kept their falacious reasoning to themselves very few would bother pointing it out to them.
This message has been edited by NosyNed, 09-30-2004 01:31 PM
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