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Post by FilmFlaneur on Nov 8, 2020 15:17:56 GMT
It's not that I don't like it, more that only I can know what I think. I do so deny. I don't have the superiority complex to call all my opponents stupid or mentally handicapped, for instance ... or argue with dictionaries and claim to win. But thank you for caring. And Bible scholarship admits of contradictions in the text. Only a fundamentalist and inerrantist minority argue otherwise. Fact. I'm sure "Bible scholars" disagree with themselves, but being somewhat ahead of you as usual I do not think that necessarily means the Bible contradicts itself. Fact, from someone who actually knows what a fact is. I can only report on the prevailing consensus of Biblical scholarship. (Noting inconsistencies in scripture does not necessarily mean that the Bible is 'false' btw). Of course you are free to hold opposing opinions while, just because it is a majority view of scholarly authorities I agree that does make something necessarily right. Just much less likely to be wrong more than someone who merely has his 'suspicions', as usual offered without substantiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_consistency_of_the_Bible ... 'Suspicions', it might be observed, imply a lack of clinching proof or even hard evidence for the contrary view - something which, as already mentioned, and in my experience, is most usually bolstered by egregious special pleading and creative exegesis by an aforementioned vocal fundamentalist minority. Stop with the strawmen, with telling me what I 'believe', and with the ad hominems. QED.
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Post by Arlon10 on Nov 8, 2020 15:38:53 GMT
I'm sure "Bible scholars" disagree with themselves, but being somewhat ahead of you as usual I do not think that necessarily means the Bible contradicts itself. Fact, from someone who actually knows what a fact is. I can only report on the prevailing consensus of Biblical scholarship. (Noting inconsistencies in scripture does not necessarily mean that the Bible is 'false' btw). Of course you are free to hold opposing opinions while, just because it is a majority view of scholarly authorities I agree that does make something necessarily right. Just much less likely to be wrong more than someone who merely has his 'suspicions', as usual offered without substantiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_consistency_of_the_Bible ... 'Suspicions', it might be observed, imply a lack of clinching proof or even hard evidence for the contrary view - something which, as already mentioned, and in my experience, is most usually bolstered by egregious special pleading and creative exegesis by an aforementioned vocal fundamentalist minority. Stop with the strawmen, with telling me what I 'believe', and with the ad hominems. QED. Actually you don't have to report on anything to do with religion, especially what Wikipedia might say about the Bible  Maybe report on the Quadrantids Meteor Shower.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Nov 8, 2020 15:39:59 GMT
I can only report on the prevailing consensus of Biblical scholarship. (Noting inconsistencies in scripture does not necessarily mean that the Bible is 'false' btw). Of course you are free to hold opposing opinions while, just because it is a majority view of scholarly authorities I agree that does make something necessarily right. Just much less likely to be wrong more than someone who merely has his 'suspicions', as usual offered without substantiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_consistency_of_the_Bible ... 'Suspicions', it might be observed, imply a lack of clinching proof or even hard evidence for the contrary view - something which, as already mentioned, and in my experience, is most usually bolstered by egregious special pleading and creative exegesis by an aforementioned vocal fundamentalist minority. Stop with the strawmen, with telling me what I 'believe', and with the ad hominems. QED. Actually you don't have to report on anything to do with religion, especially what Wikipedia might say about the Bible Maybe report on the Quadrantids Meteor Shower. Thank for addressing my points in such relevant detail.
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