Verse 4/30/09

[Deerslayer]

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
II Timothy 3:16-17

[Deerslayer]

Just some more verses taken out of context with no commentary. That doesn't change the truth that is revealed through them however. :p

[snake river rufus]

How about 1st Kings 7:23?

[Deerslayer]

Sure even that one. See (pun intended) if you were to tell me that that the water basin (or Sea) that Solomon had built for the temple took a line of forty cubits to measure around the rim I could correct you and say, "No it was actually only 30 cubits." :D

[snake river rufus]

Sure even that one. See (pun intended) if you were to tell me that that the water basin (or Sea) that Solomon had built for the temple took a line of forty cubits to measure around the rim I could correct you and say, "No it was actually only 30 cubits." :D

No, I was going to ask you the biblical value of "pi"

[Deerslayer]

Ah, now I get you. This explains it better than I could.

http://bibleprobe.com/pi.htm

[snake river rufus]

Well at least they got the math right. The reasoning was dodgy though.

[Deerslayer]

So what would you consider "dodgy" about the reasoning. It appears to be reasoned out very straightforward and explains what some have thought was an error in scripture. I like the point that they make at the end, "By the way, Solomon built this sea in 1000 B.C., long before the Greeks rediscovered Pi."

[Rich]

snake river rufus ,

I didin't read whatever is at the other end of Deerslayer's link, so I have no idea what was presented. Therefore I will plod along on this thread from my own experience.

There is an engineering thought to your question. Where I have worked, if you said, "Make it 3 1/2" wide," then the smallest measure you were sepcifying was a half inch. If the part arrived within half of that smallest measurement, it was considered a go. If you requested, "Make it 3.50" and it came in, again at half the smallest dimention stated, between 3.505" and 3.495", it was O.K. So, based on that, there is no problem in God's Word.

I am sure if you want to find "contradictions" in God's Word, you are going to find them. After all, God says He sends a tricky influence on those people who want to beleive a lie. And for every "contradiction" you find there will be someone like me or Deer slayer who will give you a reasonable explanation.

Finding "contradictions" in God's Word will not send you to hell; although I think you are calling God a liar. Rejecting God's Son will send you to hell. Remember:
"For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever beleives in Him should not perish, but have eternal life."

Here's are a couple of scientific "contradictions" in God's Word. When is the last time you heard of a virgin giving birth? How about from the millions of people who have died? Have you ever heard of a scientific observation of a person returning from the grave?

So, if one doesn't want to have a blind faith in These to Informations from God's Word, one appeals to legal historical evidence. And what do we find there? The most documented fact of history, prior to the printing press, is the crusifiction, burial, and resurection of Jesus Christ. Even the world's calendar is divided by His life!

[snake river rufus]

So what would you consider "dodgy" about the reasoning. It appears to be reasoned out very straightforward and explains what some have thought was an error in scripture. I like the point that they make at the end, "By the way, Solomon built this sea in 1000 B.C., long before the Greeks rediscovered Pi."

Measuring the diameter on the inside dimension and the circumfrence on the outside leaving the thickness to explain the flawed math? Dodgy is the most polite word that I can think of.
The value of Pi is not needed to 'make' a circle, children do it on paper all the time. So your second point is meaningless.