God can't do math?

Originally posted by Scriabin
what are you, a swedish meatball? or just a meathead?

you can't recognize satire when it is plain on your face?

no one taught any secrets in Hebrew school -- though I really wanted to know how to get into that girl Sarah's pants who sat next to me, THAT was a secret I failed to learn in time.

don't be such a stupid schmuck, now you've made me all farklempt -- go talk among yourselves.

What Hebrew shule did you go to? I thought they separated the sexes. My kid went to Ulpan for 2 years before he went to the Anglican International School in Jerusalem where he graduated from HS.

Originally posted by sonhouse
What Hebrew shule did you go to? I thought they separated the sexes. My kid went to Ulpan for 2 years before he went to the Anglican International School in Jerusalem where he graduated from HS.

didn't go to a shule. was forced to go to a "Reform" congregation. First thing I did when my mother brought me, all of 5 or 6 yrs old, to meet the distinguished Rabbi was to march up and down singing the tune I liked best off of her 45 rpm stack of Perry Como hits: Onward Christian Soldiers -- bet he liked that one, too.

I hated to go, because it was a Saturday morning thing that made me miss all the cartoon shows on our 1950s black and white TV.

And I had to dress up, by my standards -- so the pants were so scratchy I wore my PJ's under them. And I sure enjoyed the experience -- well, actually, I did get interested when they taught history. but the rest of it -- you could have it.

Originally posted by epiphinehas
Here's another possible explanation. This one having to do with the subtleties of the Hebrew text:
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"The common word for circumference is qav. Here, however, the spelling of the word for circumference, qaveh, adds a heh (h)."

[http://www.khouse.org/images/artpics/kings7.jpg]

"In the Hebrew Bible, the scribes di ...[text shortened]... How was it encoded into the text?"

http://www.khouse.org/articles/1998/158/#notes

That's even more ad hoc. You can find codes like these in the latest Donald Duck edition if you look for them.

Originally posted by Zahlanzi
by his logic it means god isn't bound by logic as he invented it. isn't bound my math as he invented it. isn't bound by the laws of physics as he invented it.

I read a story, don't know if it's true, that US congress tried to set the value of pi to 3 in the 19th century. Fortunately, they were convinced by a mathematician it wasn't going to work...

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
1 Kings 7:23 states: (KJV)

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

Which suggests that God thinks pi = 3. What is the opinion of Christians on this matter?

Isaiah 55:8
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
I read a story, don't know if it's true, that US congress tried to set the value of pi to 3 in the 19th century. Fortunately, they were convinced by a mathematician it wasn't going to work...

It's true.

I don't know the details, but I know that politicians tried to, by law, change the value of pi.

Originally posted by Zahlanzi
by his logic it means god isn't bound by logic as he invented it. isn't bound my math as he invented it. isn't bound by the laws of physics as he invented it.

that is not logic. Nor is it math or physics.

it is superstition, a belief in the supernatural.

Originally posted by FabianFnas
It's true.

I don't know the details, but I know that politicians tried to, by law, change the value of pi.

such things either are the case or they are not the case.

trying to change that kind of fact through law, well, good luck with that.

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
That's even more ad hoc. You can find codes like these in the latest Donald Duck edition if you look for them.

do NOT be dissing the Duck

Originally posted by RBHILL
Isaiah 55:8
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.

oh, that's proof alright.

btw, who wrote that line?

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
I read a story, don't know if it's true, that US congress tried to set the value of pi to 3 in the 19th century. Fortunately, they were convinced by a mathematician it wasn't going to work...

i heard that one too😀

Originally posted by Scriabin
that is not logic. Nor is it math or physics.

it is superstition, a belief in the supernatural.

forgot to write it like this: "logic"

Originally posted by Scriabin
such things either are the case or they are not the case.

trying to change that kind of fact through law, well, good luck with that.

Ah, you know politicians, they try with everything... Some even try to put creationism in the law...

Originally posted by FabianFnas
Ah, you know politicians, they try with everything... Some even try to put creationism in the law...

In Holland, this is the law as Christian schools get public funding. 😞

Originally posted by KazetNagorra
In Holland, this is the law as Christian schools get public funding. 😞

If they put religious ideas in law, then it's a step toward teocracy. We don't want that, do we?