> I am sorry to mischaracterize you, Glenn, I thought you
>said that if the
>Bible was not free from scientific and historical error, then that
>was proof
>that it was not inspired or that God did not exist? What is your
>explanation
>of Lev. 11:19-22 and Lev.11:6?
I don't have an explanation other than that the guy made a mistake or used
idioms differently than we moderns want him to. A question I would think is
a good one with the 'walk on all fours' comment. Is that an idiom for
crawling along the ground? Afterall, we talk of the sun 'setting' and the
North 'Pole' and those are scientifically inaccurate also. Occassionally
marine mammals are classed with the fish in common parlance. Since the guy
was giving dietary laws, which were their observations about what made
someone sick, that passage doesn't seem to me to have great wads of divine
inspiration. It is not of great theological significance what the writer
called the hare or the insects.
glenn
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