At 11:14 AM 17/02/02 +0000, Jim Eisele wrote:
>I'll probably gloss over a lot even in just this one reply. I think,
>however, that we can fall flat on our faces when we focus on the "biblical
>writers." Either God inspired 100% of the Bible, or 0%, or somewhere in
>between.
>
>-Jim
No doubt 100 %, but that does not mean that therefor my or your reading is
correct. As a Calvinist I believe that nothing we do is error- (sin-)
free. That is why we can have discussions like this. The only frustrating
thing I find in discussions like this, that in general our back-grounds and
our pasts are different. Consequently we get involved in a hot debate,
before we realize, that the other person does not know where we are coming
from. The result is that we get more and more hot under the collar and say
things we should not have.
Just a little note, God did not inspire the present English translations,
and the inspired originals do not exist any longer. Copiers and
translators are sinners, and people like we, who wanted to do a perfect
job, but were not perfect. Consequently, the number of bible translations
into English continues to grow. Obviously most of them are not exactly
correct.
Jan de K.
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