Interesting post Paul - thanks.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:38:17PM -0600, Paul Baker wrote:
You really can't take anything in the bible literally. The bible was
passed entirely verbally for many hundreds or thousands of years
before
it was written down. Things are bound to get changed as they are
passed
from one generation to the next and even across languages. And of
A couple of months ago my local newspaper (www.theage.com.au) published
an opinion from a columnist (who was a legitimate minister of some kind
IIRC), suggesting that the virgin birth of Jesus was an artifact of
many
translations of the bible and not something that actually happened. An
interesting argument - and one that brought in a lot of irate letters
to
the editor!