Agnostic needs help with bible study

[Rick Carlson]

Lan Barnes wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:57:40PM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote:
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>>begin  quoting Lan Barnes as of Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:40:41PM -0800:
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>>>Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to research.
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>>>Can't trust people with an anti-bible agenda to report it fairly.
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>>It's not as if Bibles are hard to get, or the alternate viewpoints
>>are difficult to obtain.  Walk into $random_church and ask the person
>>dressed in funny clothes what they thing about $passage...
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>>Lan, I'm suprised you've not snagged a copy of the KJV from Gutenberg.
>>It's ASCII, so it's quite greppable.
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>And what would I grep? Here is the passage:
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>He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits
>[c] from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty
>cubits [d] to measure around it. 24
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>About the only thing might be "circular," and I've got a hunch it
>appears in lots of places.
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>Besides, you can't think to grep what you've never read.
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>The several bibles I've had were mostly stolen from motels.
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Okay, now that I have a little more to go on check these out:

http://bible.cc/1_kings/7-23.htm

http://bible.cc/2_chronicles/4-2.htm

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1KGS%207;&version=31;

http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/value_of_pi.html

http://www.roundearth.net/PI.htm

http://www.apocalipsis.org/difficulties/pi.htm

http://bibleforums.org/forum/showthread.php?t=13834

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/pibible.htm

http://www.chaoticnotrandom.com/2004/05/things-that-need-to-go-away-right-now.html

http://answering-islam.org.uk/Religions/Numerics/pi.html

And there are many more. But, I think this sufficiently beats this dead 
horse.

Rick
rcarlson52 at nethere.net