At 10:41 AM 6/10/02 +0000, Jim Eisele wrote:
>Sadly, the YECs on this list appear incapable of having open, fair-minded
>discussions. Even an omnipotent Lord and Savior cannot (and will not!)
>force people to have fair-minded discussions. People are going to do
>what they please. My impression of the Bible is that it says things like
>"let people follow their own paths." I realize that is not a thoroughly
>"fleshed out" statement. But I'm not sure if this group wants to pursue
>that discussion further, anyway.
>
>I don't remember, at any point, "detecting errors embedded" in the Bible.
The reason for my question, Jim, is that you had originally asked if an
omnipotent God would allow errors in the Bible (although you appear to have
abandoned the notion of God's omnipotence in your comment above about what
God cannot do). If God is truly omnipotent (as well as omniscient and
all-good), then he will not allow errors anywhere. Why should we think
that God will allow errors on this list, but not allow errors in the Bible?
Tom Pearson
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Thomas D. Pearson
Department of History & Philosophy
The University of Texas-Pan American
Edinburg, Texas
e-mail: pearson@panam1.panam.edu
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