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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 09:27:57 -0400
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On 9/16/24 13:26, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> 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.

As I understand it, the claim is that God directly inspired the final
authors. They might have received incorrect information by other means,
but God would have inspired them to correct it in the version that got
committed to paper.
I've even heard the same claim made for those who merely translated the
text to a new language, rather than writing it for the first time. In
particular, I remember that claim being made for both the Septuagint and
the King James bible.
Serious Bible scholars know all about the many variant texts and
inaccurate translations - but those scholars are not the ones making the
claims I'm talking about. Also, not all Believers believe that all
divinely inspired texts are perfect - many believe that every biblical
text is, at best, somewhat distorted due to the divine inspiration being
modified during the process of passing through a human brain.
I'm an atheist talking about what Believers think - no disrespect is
intended
beyond that inherent in the fact that I am an atheist.