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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
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Subject: Re: About Literalism: The authors of Scripture.
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Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 09:40:19 EDT
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> > There is a third theory that is convincing to me: Scripture was written
> > by men, and like all things written by men, it contains errors.  There,
> > now, that wasn't so bad, was it?
> > 
> > 	Bill Jefferys  
> 
> I guess the writer of Hebrews didn't quite agree with that theory. When 
> quoting Psalm 95 the writer says:
>  
> 	  "Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
> 	  'TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,...'" (Hebrews 3:7 NASB)
> 
> The writer of Hebrews actually thought that the Holy Spirit
> was the author of Psalm 95. What a fool! Everyone knows that 
> Scripture was written by men. (and men alone?)
> 
I see.  So if I have a book, and it says clearly in this book that it
was not written by men, then that proves that it was not written by
men.  How could I have been so stupid?

-- 
"Men never do evil so cheerfully and so completely as when they do so from
	religious conviction."  -- Blaise Pascal

	Bill Jefferys  8-%
	Astronomy Dept, University of Texas, Austin TX 78712   (USnail)
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