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Subject: Science as authority


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Date Posted: 09:43:44 06/06/04 Sun
In reply to: hello 's message, "Re: 約伯記" on 23:13:20 06/05/04 Sat

Why the expositor treats "pillars" as figurative while "hung" as factual? Because he has the scientific knowledge of a spherical Earth in mind. That means he uses science as the final authority to choose which part of the Bible to be treated as figurative, which part as factual.

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