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NASB | Psalm 119:160 The sum of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting. Shin. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 119:160 The sum of Your word is truth [the full meaning of all Your precepts], And every one of Your righteous ordinances endures forever. |
Subject: Is anything in the bible proven untrue |
Bible Note: Again, nonsense. The number 7 would be a bad approximation for pi, not 3. In any case,how do you definitively determine that the Old Testament is fudging on pi at all? How are you certain that it is not the diameter of the sea that is being approximated, or the cirumference, or both? How precise does a recorded measurement of a circumference have to be to its diameter times an irrational number in order for it to meet the great atheist's standard of precision? After all, it does have the same number of significant figures as measurement of its diameter, so I would have supposed it would have met your keen scientific standards. :) Do you really think that something pitiful like this proves the Bible to be unreliable? I suppose that if I said that I lived 400 miles away from my parents, but actually lived 412 miles away, then I suppose I couldn't be trusted to give an accurate representation of the facts. Seriously, take a few steps back (or 3.1415926 steps back, if you prefer), and think about how silly your argument is. Then, I recommend that you go read the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, which is perhaps the best summary and explanation of what the doctrine of inerrancy is and isn't. In it, you will find this paragraph: "So history must be treated as history, poetry as poetry, hyperbole and metaphor as hyperbole and metaphor, generalization and approximation as what they are, and so forth. Differences between literary conventions in Bible times and in ours must also be observed: Since, for instance, nonchronological narration and imprecise citation were conventional and acceptable and violated no expectations in those days, we must not regard these things as faults when we find them in Bible writers. When total precision of a particular kind was not expected nor aimed at, it is no error not to have achieved it. Scripture is inerrant, not in the sense of being absolutely precise by modern standards, but in the sense of making good its claims and achieving that measure of focused truth at which its authors aimed." And the whole document (a good read for all, IMO) can be found here: http://www.jpusa.org/jpusa/documents/biblical.htm --Joe! |