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Author Topic:   Does the Errancy of Fundamentalism Disprove the God of the Bible?
Evopeach
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Message 22 of 154 (283765)
02-03-2006 10:20 PM


Conservative Scholarship
The most intellectually pleasing and logical view is that the bible texts in the canbnon are inerrent in the original manuscripts which are not extant. There are many fragments, some entire very early manuscripts and they have been examined in their original language, Hebrew in the old testament and various in the new, both Gree and Aramaic.
The various translation are performed by man from the best evidence theory of scholarship but being human the translations are imperfect representations of the the original inspired texts.
The fact that the bible exposes human error, fraility, sinfulness and all forms of human weaknesses means it accurately record the human condition, saying nothing about God's character. In fact it is in keeping with reality as we see and perceive it.. man has not changed his behavior significantly.
The bible does claim perfection other than the original creation, the character of God and the life of Christ and again the truth contained in the original manuscripts.
The years of study, scholarship, archeological findings and such have rendered translations of extreme accuracy as people have learned from the afore mentioned work and experience.
There is of course disagreement among the scholars as in any field of scholarship just as in science.
This does not at all invalidate the great teaching and historicity of the bible as a wholw and certainly not in the major themes and the teachings of Jesus.
It seems that science is more sure of its conclusions concerning events billions of years in the past than they are of biblical events which occurred in the last 6,000 years.

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Evopeach
Member (Idle past 6640 days)
Posts: 224
From: Stroud, OK USA
Joined: 08-03-2005


Message 26 of 154 (283793)
02-04-2006 12:21 AM
Reply to: Message 25 by nwr
02-03-2006 10:55 PM


Re: Conservative Scholarship
With that logic the human race would never be able to reason but would be an expert ast meaningless sophistry.
a like b and c like b does it make sense to say a nd c like each other.
LOL

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