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From: jnelson@trwrba.UUCP (John T. Nelson)
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Subject: Changing scripture... a lost art?
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Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 15:39:35 EST
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Subject: Re: Changing scripture... a lost art?
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			[LARRY BICKFORD]
			Such a study also corroborates the Biblical record of
			history.  ("Every turn of the archaeologist's spade
			buries another 'higher critic.'")

		[JOHN T. NELSON]
		You mean like Lazaris stopping the sun?

	[PAUL DUBOIS]
	Lazarus stopping the sun?  What's this all about?

Funny... my Bible seems to have been tampered with ;-)...

I was wondering when someone would catch that one.  Obviously I
meant Joshua in the Old Testament.  Joshua was the big general after
Moses.  Refering to the Revised Standard edition we find...

Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 12:


Then spoke Joshua to the lord in the day when the lord gave the
Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel
"Sun, stand though still at Gibeon and though Moon in the valley
Aijalon" and the Sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation
took vengence on their enemies.  Is this not written in the book of
Jashar?  The Sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to
go down for about a whole day.  There has been no day like it before or
since, when the lord harkened to the voice of a man; for the lord
fought for Israel.


Now if you're a true Chrisitan who believes in the literal
interpretation of the Bible then of course you believe that Joshua
stopped the sun...  A sun wich we all know is rock-steady to begin
with.

I would like to add that I am not ridiculing the Old Testiment because
this task is "too difficult" for any God.  What I am saying is that there
is a blatent contradiction here.  The author of this book (and
apparently) Joshua too, believed that the sun revolves about the earth.
If one were to interpret this passage literally then one would HAVE to
conclude that the sun is the center of the solar system which is
clearly not true.

The Bible cannot be relied upon as as a totally accurate
source of history or fact.  Not when taken literally.



			"We don' need no stinkin GREEN books!"
			- John