On 13 Jan 2021 13:29:51 GMT
TimS  wrote:

> On 13 Jan 2021 at 12:51:13 GMT, The Natural Philosopher

> > The reason the creationists believe what they do - and I spent an
> > interesting dinner party finding out, is that there is, for them, only
> > One True Word, and that's in the King James Bible. All else is delusion
> > inspired by the devil
>
> So you have to believe in the Devil, for starters, an entity I don't
> believe in and for which I've never seen any evidence.

 Nope, you just have to accept that there are people who do.

> And then there's King James, eh? I wonder why that one. My SWMBO, who did

 That translation was supposed to have been guided by God or
somesuch, I forget the exact details.

> some theology at Uni, says that any modern version of the Bible has been
> copied and translated back and forth over the centuries by scribes with
> greater or lesser degrees of care, and greater or lesser detailed
> knowledge of the languages they were translating from, that you're bound

 Hence the need for a translation guided by God to be the official
version.

 You either believe this stuff or you don't - for the record I don't.

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