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From: jnelson@trwrba.UUCP (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Changing scripture... a lost art?
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 18:36:32 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 18:36:32 1984
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	[Larry Bickford]
	My opinion of you has plummeted to below zero.

[John T. Nelson]
Why?  Not that I really care since my purpose on the net is not to
garner public support.

	If you wish to communicate by mail, do so - netnews followups
	are out of line.

I never expressed the desire to communicate by mail... what makes you
think that I did?  Netnews followups are totally reasonable since there
are other people who might might find debate on this subject (of all
subjects) interesting and informative.  Are you for some reason afraid
to air your ideas or debate subjects in the open?  Religion is something
to be discussed in public, not in private.
	
	Frankly, your arguments are boring and pointless.

Being an overworked manager I have little time to put together works of
art.  My arguments might bore you but they are far from pointless.
You simple have no tangible evidence that will convince a non-believer
that what is stated in the Bible is true.  Period.  If you do then
let's see it.

	Any decent study of the history of the Scriptures more than
	verifies that what we have is virtually the same as what the
	first-century Christians had.

Evidence.

	Such a study also corroborates the Biblical record of history.
	("Every turn of the archaeologist's spade buries another
	'higher critic.'")

You mean like Lazaris stopping the sun?  Or cave paintings in Australia?
Or dinosaur footprints...

	Scripture is not changed by communication, any more than your
	editing of this in a reply changes what I have written.

How will people a thousand years from now know what you have written?
How will they know it is accurate if your existance is recorded only
through these articles?  They won't... similarly we have no adequate
way of tracing the changes that the bible may have undergone.


					- John