Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cybvax0.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Philosophy of science and Creationism Message-ID: <804@cybvax0.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 13:55:23 EST Article-I.D.: cybvax0.804 Posted: Thu Oct 31 13:55:23 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 05:38:42 EST References: <11384@rochester.UUCP> <615@hou2g.UUCP> <143@ucdavis.UUCP> <799@cybvax0.UUCP> <144@sdcc7.UUCP> Reply-To: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) Distribution: net Organization: Cybermation, Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 19 In article <144@sdcc7.UUCP> ln63fac@sdcc7.UUCP (Rick Frey) writes: > In article <799@cybvax0.UUCP>, mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes: > > Even assuming the Bible is inspired by God, we cannot know God's purpose > > in giving it to us. Because we cannot understand the purpose, we have no > > way of knowing if God intended us to accept/reject/believe/disbelieve the > > Bible. > > But what about what the Bible says about God's purpose in giving it to us? [Examples deleted... mrh] > Unless God is deliberatley lying to us in the Bible as some kind of test, > there's no way we can do anything else but take God at His word. [....] Because you could not know god's purpose, you could not tell if he is lying. He may lie to further some selfish aim, to test, or whatever. Whatever the bible says about god's purposes might just as well be a lie as anything else. -- Mike Huybensz ...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh