Agnostic needs help with bible study

[Rick Carlson]

Lan Barnes wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:01:52PM -0800, Rick Carlson wrote:
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>>Okay, now that I have a little more to go on check these out:
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>>http://bible.cc/1_kings/7-23.htm
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>>http://bible.cc/2_chronicles/4-2.htm
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>>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1KGS%207;&version=31;
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>>http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/value_of_pi.html
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>>http://www.roundearth.net/PI.htm
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>>http://www.apocalipsis.org/difficulties/pi.htm
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>>http://bibleforums.org/forum/showthread.php?t=13834
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>>http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/pibible.htm
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>>http://www.chaoticnotrandom.com/2004/05/things-that-need-to-go-away-right-now.html
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>>http://answering-islam.org.uk/Religions/Numerics/pi.html
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>>And there are many more. But, I think this sufficiently beats this dead 
>>horse.
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>>Rick
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>Well, it all strikes me as too cute by half. Nice rationalizations on
>why a geometric absurdity in the text is not to be taken at face value,
>while other absurdities in the same text are.
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You will get no argument from me. I chose to abandon the Christianity of 
my youth shortly after reading the Bible from cover to cover as a young 
adult. When people ask me why I am not a Christian I explain that while 
I find the teachings of Jesus, insofar as they can be deduced from the 
current Bible, as valuable in a general sort of way I refuse to worship 
or even acknowledge a God who behaves worse than an inconsiderate house 
guest.

If the propaganda is to believed that I have free will I choose to 
exercise it not to play the game of choosing between the Christian God 
OR the Christian Devil. Sometimes the only way to win is to not play the 
game.

I prefer the Taoist Philosophy which says the world is a pretty nice 
place. It is people and their insistence they have the inside path to 
the TRUTH as represented by their limited understanding of the cosmos 
through Christianity and other divisive religions that screw up life on 
this planet.

Rick
rcarlson52 at nethere.net