Posted: Apr 21, 2017 6:54 pm
PensivePenny wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:PensivePenny wrote:Crank, I'm not so sure. A multitude of apologists have proven that enough verbal gymnastics can change entire meanings.
That's not changing the meaning, that's changing the interpetation.
And unless those apologist can provide evidence that their interpetation is the way it was intended by the biblical authors/god, they haven't got anything to go on.
Isn't that just it? Most DO provide "evidence" inasmuch as can be derived from a fallible collection of translated and cherry picked ancient scrolls.
No, as I pointed out in my original response, they interpet texts and to support their interpetation offer either faith (translation: reading the bible to fit with own preconceived beliefs) or interpetations of other texts as support.