Re: Scriptural errors (was Hyers' Article - Cods Wallop!)

Burgy,
Your interpretation makes me feel so much better. "All have sinned"
applies only to those living before ca 58. So we're OK.
Dave

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 12:56:46 -0700 John W Burgeson <jwburgeson@juno.com>
writes:
> >>I know there are specious arguments by damned fools and by other
> classes of fools. Why do their conclusions vitiate the authority of
> scripture?>>
>
> Luther wrote some of the most anti-semitic diatribes on record, but
> I would not call him any kind of a fool.
>
> I have a photocopy of a respected clergyman of about 1858 who
> apparently detested slavery yet argued for it because he sincerely
> saw the Bible commanding it. I do not call him a fool either.
>
> >> Were there not woman who were leaders in the apostolic church?
> Does not Phi lemon have a relevant message about slavery?>>
>
> 1. Yes. 2. The letter to Phi lemon indicates only that Paul was
> sending Onesimus back to his owner. One may speculate it was as a
> free man, but the text does not say. But assuming Onesimus WAS
> returning to his owner as a free man, there are too many other
> slavery references in scripture to use this as "proof" that
> scripture condemns it.
>
> >>As for the relevance of Paul's statement, there is evidence that
> Mark's gospel was circulating early. At least a fragment found at
> Qumran, which must antedate A.D. 68, apparently came from that
> gospel.>>
>
> Yes. And other parts that were clearly written later. So either you
> relegate some parts of scripture to 2nd class status or admit that
> Paul could not possibly have all of the current 66 books in mind
> when he wrote that.
>
> >> Further, what are you going to do with the words of God
> incarnate? Were they not already written down, though perhaps not it
> the exact form they have come to us?>>
>
> Sorry. I don't understand what you mean here.
>
> Burgy
>
> www.burgy.50megs.com/m021028.txt (Exposing creationist pseudo
> science)
>
>
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Received on Sat Mar 6 18:02:45 2004