Re: Source Code for OS?

[olcott <olcott@qwest.net>]

Yeah right, one part of Revelations
specifically refer to the four corners of the Earth.

Paul Schlyter wrote:

> In article <3A824578.E82EDA18@inetnebr.com>,
> Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
>
> > While this is true, it still doesn't deal with what the Bible says about
> > itself, which is that it is the very word of God written. In fact, the
> > phrase "word of God" is used by Jesus many times in reference to the Bible.
>
> There is one serious problem with assuming that the Bible literally
> is the "word of God" though: as the Bible is written, it is as if it
> was written by people a long time ago, to the best of their
> understanding and abilities.  But one could really expect an
> omnipotent and all-wise God to be able to do much better than that!
> For instance by adding some paragraphs which were gibberish to people
> of old times but which later turned out to agree well with e.g.
> scientific progress.  E.g. things about the vastness of space, our
> solar system being only a tiny tiny part of it -- etc etc.  But no,
> the cosmology, as described in Genesis, agrees well with the
> medieveal geocentric universe which consisted of our solar system and
> little else, so well that astronomical discoveries of Galileo's time
> was banned by the Church because they were perceived as contradicting
> the Bible....
>
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