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As you use the terms, David, is "being dumb" better, worse, or about as bad as being an "idiot"? In recent posts, you've used both terms to describe people, so it would help me to know where they stand in comparison to each other on yo…
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Thank you for sharing your views.
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No. I'm only trying to get an answer to my question.
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Your response "helps" in the sense that it's exactly the kind of response I expected from you. Thanks for taking the time to post it.
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You're welcome to couch your response to that question in terms of "higher criticism" or the Bible's "inspiration," but it seems reasonable to me that I ask that you couch your response in terms that actually address the question. YOU …
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You ask for definition of some terms. We will get to those, but first I ask for closure on the question I asked, but you still haven't addressed.
(Quote)Neither the definition of the Bible's "inspiration," nor of its inerrancy, nor of…
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And you, also, Gao Lu, have made clear your view of my view of the Bible. But as I indicated to David, my view of the Bible is not the subject of this thread; Numbers 5.11-31 is.
Earlier in this thread, you asked for my respons…
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Here you perpetuate, or at least hint at, a couple of Trumpster camp talking point falsehoods:
1. That the Steele Dossier is filled with lies. On the record, very little of its content has been disproven; much of… -
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You have made clear your view of my view of the Bible, David. But my view of the Bible is not the subject of this thread; Numbers 5.11-31 is. Do you have any comments on that passage, the marital fidelity test it describes, and/or the…
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In short, David, no. Your summary of my view is incorrect.
But I would welcome your engagement with the Numbers 5 text that is the subject of this thread. For example, are you aware of a Bible passage that sets out a comparable…
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I hope you will address my question as directly as I addressed yours.
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The more Trumpsters howl about the course and reach of the Mueller probe, the more evident it is that Mueller is closing in on the Trump inner circle.
With so many cooperating witnesses, with access to so many documents and int…
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Again, you and I likely disagree as to the meaning and reach of the concept of biblical inspiration. I believe the Bible IS the inspired Word of God, but that such inspiration does NOT preclude it from containing errors, principally be…
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I'm curious: Where in the text do you find that concern for the wife's rights and dignity is more central than the rights of the husband?
In my view, the passage begins with reference to women whose infidelity no one witnessed …
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As I reported above, I think the author of the Numbers 5 text likely believed that he or she was accurately quoting God, so I don't expect the text to identify the conduct as ungodly. I think instead that the author got God wrong on th…
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The way I read your first post in this thread, you view the dirty water ingestion test in Numbers 5 as God's provision of protection for women from groundless spousal or "frenzied mob" accusations of marital infidelity (it's worth not…
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I hope it helps for you to know that you have no role in whether I choose to engage the subject of biblical inerrancy or any other subject in these forums. Nor do I consider you a goat - "scape" or otherwise - or a jailer. In fact, my …
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Could it be there are more than two views?
I assure you, CM, there are alternatives to a Bible that's inerrant other than a Bible that's "full of errors," and a "strictly human, error-ridden book, devoid of supernatural revelat…
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Excellent. I look forward to your next comments on the Numbers 5 passage that is the topic of this thread.
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Thanks for calling our attention to this practice, CM, a practice which I believe is a product of the patriarchal (and perhaps misogynistic) times in which it arose. Some observations about the passage:
- Husbands appear to …
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(Quote)This is a fascinating question!
The way I read the text, Jesus is THE human to whom God has given the authority to forgive sins; but that doesn't mean God couldn't authorize other humans to forgive sin…
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I didn't mean to suggest that you asked about divinity, Brian. I added that topic to my response, much in the way we all at times expand our responses to posts beyond their specific parameters.
As for the term "son of man," I t…
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Clearly, I emphasized impacts of such a small reduction in the number of firearms OTHER than its size. The psychological impact, for example.
Would such a reduction be "stupid"? Not in my view; but it's useful to point out that…
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As I tried to point out in my OP, David, the math matters here:
There are in the area of 300 million owned guns in the United States. So were 750,000 of them to disappear tomorrow, 99.75% of owned guns would still be in the han…
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In the OT, "son of man" principally points to a human being (multiple references in Ezekiel, all to the prophet; Numbers 23.19). In the Gospels, in my view, Jesus uses "son of man" as a third person self-reference. In many of those ref…
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In a similar-style meeting with congressional leaders on immigration a month or so ago, the president said he would sign whatever legislation the gathered group agreed to, That turned out not to be true, as Mr Trump returned to his ant…
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I expect to live (and post) for a few more years, Gao Lu, but I have no reason to believe I'll do so forever. So you can rest assured that when I go, my invented conclusions, untenable premises, and isolated contexts will go with me. A…
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