Re: [asa] Question on inerrancy

On 5/10/08, David Heddle <heddle@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you ever want to demonstrate that the bible contains error, you must, in
> my opinion, try much harder than cud chewing rabbits, pi equals three, bats
> are birds, etc. examples. Each of the bible's "scientific errors" are
> explained as figures of speech, translation errors, modern chauvinism (such
> as assuming modern classification schemes are as inviolate as the laws of
> physics) etc. These claims tend to be sort of fallacious--in the sense that
> they make the "ancients were ignorant" error.

I have recently come to believe that the best example of error is in
Matthew's geneology (Chapter 1, 1-17).

42 generations (14+14+14) are claimed in vs 17, but there are only 41 there.

Burgy

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Received on Mon May 12 12:36:01 2008