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Originally posted by Yorick:
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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
I think I finally found "my" bible: The skeptics annotated bible
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You do realise I am a sceptic right? Scepticism is an approach. It's relative to the subject the person is sceptical of.
I am sceptical of atheism for example. Of capitalism, communism, democracy, scientism, oligarchism, totalitarianism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and a host of other things. A sceptic and a cynic both. Yet also an idealist with faith. [/QUOTE]And I am skeptical of God. Chewie, this bible is the one I quoted on the other thread for its list of contradictions.
Back to contradictions -- since we started a whole new thread for it:
Yorick, you have recognized that there are clerical contradictions in the Bible. Now, we have basic consensus on that. Let's move on.
Do you deny that there are experts and theologians that believe thematic and/or factual (important facts, not just clerical/numerical) inconsistencies exist? I am not asking you if they are right or wrong -- we have established that I am at best going to give your views/arguments equal footing with educated expert opinions, and for now I will not rate one or the other as "right" or "better" or "per se more true." So, are there experts out there that disagree with you on the issue of contradiction?
P.S. Sorry I could not do more than imply things regarding specific contradictions in my last post. Not being an expert, I am hard-pressed to go and assimilate enough information to make educated opinions yet. Besides, my point was not what the alleged inconsistencies are but rather that there are books written by priests and scholars about them. I think the statement from my wife IS fair proof of that point. She stood in the library, researched in the library, and wrote papers dealing with contradictions that referenced books in the library. She has offered to dig out the paper she wrote, but if I do that it will only be to cite books and authors.
In other words, at this point my only argument is that there are in fact expert opinions that there are contradictions. I will not, repeat will not, address the accurateness of alleged contradictions at this point. I am only trying to establish the fact that there ARE alleged contradictions by experts.
Do you agree?