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I did not hesitate, but I am sure a few
tender and sensitive Catholic souls may have been shocked.. Not a murmer
back so far. I heard Jack muttering.
But that is the point Neville.. Scripture
cannot validate or authorise itself. Jesus did not preach scripture, or ever ask
for any book to be written, lest he asked for it privately in addition to His
insistence on the tradition of oral preaching. Which I am sure he did.
The book did not fall from Heaven in a blaze
of light, but was compiled together by a bunch of men argueing for many months
if not years about what was inspired and what was not. We know that
there are some few inspired writings that are not included. Just
who has the authority to put them in there today? Jimmy Swaggert?
Agreed.
"I find it hard to accept that what is still a massive structure needs to
rotate about the World."
Well yes, but hardly impossible given
the theoretical possibilities, like a solid aether.. After all the High
Priests of the temple preach time dilation and linear contraction, er or is it
molecular contraction..
Agreed, too, but it was more the necessity (or even, purpose) of it from God's point of view, for even in a 'small' geocentric universe, the stars are whizzing around at superluminal speeds.
Neville.
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