tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207424005557092808.post4428732231171727063..comments2023-08-08T07:59:14.554-07:00Comments on The Shipwreck of Time: Alleged Mistakes in the BibleSteven J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15638850493907393069noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207424005557092808.post-50007386815880332142010-09-30T21:51:50.863-07:002010-09-30T21:51:50.863-07:00Excellent.
Unfortunately it will be hard to bead...Excellent. <br /><br />Unfortunately it will be hard to bead Terry's Undies for popularity at this point!BathTubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198295395639562763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207424005557092808.post-71691120066029180122010-09-30T21:18:15.313-07:002010-09-30T21:18:15.313-07:00BathTub asked me:
Steven, would you be cool with ...BathTub asked me:<br /><br /><b>Steven, would you be cool with us flicking this review and Ray's rebuttal (and your counter-rebuttal, etc, etc) on the wearesmrt wiki as a sort of informal debate?</b><br /><br />I'd be honored. Feel free.Steven J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15638850493907393069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207424005557092808.post-6800383337990299482010-09-30T12:30:05.623-07:002010-09-30T12:30:05.623-07:00Steven, would you be cool with us flicking this re...Steven, would you be cool with us flicking this review and Ray's rebuttal (and your counter-rebuttal, etc, etc) on the wearesmrt wiki as a sort of informal debate?BathTubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198295395639562763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7207424005557092808.post-78888266478104920892010-09-30T09:08:38.741-07:002010-09-30T09:08:38.741-07:00It would presumably be possible, even today, to sl...It would presumably be possible, even today, to slap together a "Hellenic Bible" which (like the Hebrew Bible) was an anthology of history, mythology, poetry and philosophy. It would consist of works by Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides, etc. And it would be just as easy to say, as believers say about the Old and New Testament, "Here is a work written by many different authors over hundreds of years, and yet there is not one mistake or self-contradiction in it."<br /><br />This would seem an impossible task, since Aristotle <i>appears</i> to have gotten many things wrong in physics and biology, and Plato <i>appears</i> to speak disparagingly of Homer, and Homer and Sophocles <i>appear</i> to have different version of episodes involving the loves and deaths of the heroes, etc. But all these apparent falsehoods and contradictions could surely be made to vanish if enough faith and creativity were employed -- i.e., what the non-believer would call "special pleading."<br /><br />But then why go to the trouble of reinventing the circular argument; we can just observe how obvious it is to orthodox Christians that the Book of Mormon is full of nonsense and falsehoods, and how easy it is for the LDS apologist to use the same kind of hermeneutic to defend his text that the Christians use for theirs.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15968745144779612135noreply@blogger.com