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rbwinn wrote:
> On Aug 2, 11:35�pm, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:26:22 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote
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>>> On Aug 2, 9:56?pm, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:04:19 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote
>>>> in alt.atheism:
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>>>>> It means the same in Greek as it does in English.
>>>> How familiar are you with ancient Greek. What word was used in Luke?
>>>> Feel free to transcribe it using the traditional Latin character
>>>> substitutes for the Greek letters, since usenet isn't necessarily
>>>> designed to support non-latin characters.
>>>> As for your desire to believe that Luke was a physician and that he
>>>> wrote the gospel of that name, no evidence supports it. The framing of
>>>> the gospel appears to be designed to target a certain audience. Framing
>>>> is not unusual. Simon Morgenstern is a fairly famous author of a story
>>>> called The Princess Bride. Of course, there is the problem that Simon
>>>> Morgenstern never existed except in the imagination, particularly of
>>>> William Goldman, but also of everyone who suspends disbelief long enough
>>>> to enjoy the story.
>>>> The Bible is a story. It can be fun to suspend disbelief for a while as
>>>> you read it, but you need to bring your critical facilities to bear
>>>> after a while. You do yourself no favor by deluding yourself about what
>>>> the Bible is.- Hide quoted text -
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>>> The Bible is two testaments of Jesus Christ, the Old Testament and the
>>> New Testament.
>> The Bible is a collection of stories. Neither the Old Testament nor the
>> New are reliable for any reason at all. When tested against history and
>> science, they fail.- Hide quoted text -
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> You mean like they failed in the case of Hezekiah's tunnel?

No.

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