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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:26:51 +0200
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On 16.09.2024 18:19, James Kuyper wrote:
> On 2024-09-16, Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>> On 16/09/2024 12:30, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> ...
>>> Yes; "I hsve my own personal version of the Bible in which many of its
>>> arbitrary stories are otherwise" is probably not a good way to approach
>>> a Bible study group.
>>
>> So this is a Bible study group now?
> 
> No, but there are some key similarities. Both bible study groups and
> this newsgroup have an authoritative text to reference. However, the
> nature of that authority is quite different in the two cases. Bible
> study groups believe that the Bible is divinely inspired. Those who are
> sufficiently familiar with the C standard know that it was created by a
> committee of experts, fully capable of making mistakes. Many (most?)
> Believers consider the Bible to be incapable of being wrong.

But wasn't the Bible created in a ("Chinese whispers"?) way like
  ([God] ->) human -> ... -> human -> Bible write-down
with (a lot?) of ([possibly] errant) humans in between?

Disclaimer: I don't know how many instances of "human" were involved.

Only that there's no way, I suppose, to fix any (even obvious) mistakes
in the Bible.

Janis

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