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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Changing scripture... a lost art?
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Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:48:17 EST
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> I would like to add that I am not ridiculing the Old Testiment because
> this task is "too difficult" for any God.  What I am saying is that there
> is a blatent contradiction here.  The author of this book (and
> apparently) Joshua too, believed that the sun revolves about the earth.
> If one were to interpret this passage literally then one would HAVE to
> conclude that the sun is the center of the solar system which is
> clearly not true.
> 
> The Bible cannot be relied upon as as a totally accurate
> source of history or fact.  Not when taken literally.

Well, now.  Do you call up the weatherman when he says what time
the sun will "rise" tomorrow, and chew him out for his antiquainted
geocentrism?  Probably not.  So what's the beef if the Bible speaks
phenomenologically, i.e., in regular language?
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Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois