Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: usenet@paris.ics.uci.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: inconsistencies in the Bible (digest of postings) Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 89 08:46:11 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 26 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I'm afraid I'm not able to resolve the incosistancies presented in the digest recently. Nor do I have much to add to what OFM already mentioned in his closing notes for that digest. I would like to add an illustration that helps me live with contradictions in many areas of life. I do not claim that this illustration applies to all contradictions presented in the recent posting. Imagine that I am in a field facing two blind persons and there is a water fountain between them. If the one to my left asks me which direction the fountain is I would say "to your left". Both start moving left and I say to the other, "no, it is to your right". On a separate issue, I suppose that the concern over contradictions is the "infallible word of God" thing. Well, I don't know about all that but I do know that none of the contradictions are of the sort, "Jesus said 'do to others as you would have them do to you'" in Matt, and "Jesus said, 'do to others as they do to you'" in Luke, or better yet, "Jesus died for our sins" in Romans, and "Jesus did not die for our sins" in Hebrews. My opinion is that God placed redundancy checks on all the really important stuff He wanted us to get because He knows what a bunch of goofs we are. --wayne (iba@ics.uci.edu) "All men will know that you are my disciples if you love one another" Jn 13.35