Bill Dukenfield
January 15th 08, 04:02 AM
"Christopher D. Thompson" wrote:
>
> renewed it, under the
> Spirit's inspiration, after it had been destroyed by the violence of the
> deluge, as, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of
> it, every document of the Jewish literature is generally agreed to have been
> restored through Ezra."
>
> [114]Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, V. viii. 14. "God was glorified, and
> the Scriptures were recognized as truly divine, for they all rendered the
> same things in the same words and the same names, from beginning to end, so
> that even the heathen who were present knew that the Scriptures had been
> translated by the inspiration of God. And it is no marvel that God did this,
> for when the Scriptures had been destroyed in the captivity of the people in
> the days of Nebuchadnezzar, and the Jews had gone back to their country
> after seventy years, then in the times of Artaxerxes, the king of the
> Persians, he inspired Ezra, the priest of the tribe of Levi, to restore all
> the sayings of the prophets who had gone before, and to restore to the
> people the law given by Moses." This is Pascal's re
Ignorant superstition, nothing more.
JAM
>
> renewed it, under the
> Spirit's inspiration, after it had been destroyed by the violence of the
> deluge, as, after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian storming of
> it, every document of the Jewish literature is generally agreed to have been
> restored through Ezra."
>
> [114]Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, V. viii. 14. "God was glorified, and
> the Scriptures were recognized as truly divine, for they all rendered the
> same things in the same words and the same names, from beginning to end, so
> that even the heathen who were present knew that the Scriptures had been
> translated by the inspiration of God. And it is no marvel that God did this,
> for when the Scriptures had been destroyed in the captivity of the people in
> the days of Nebuchadnezzar, and the Jews had gone back to their country
> after seventy years, then in the times of Artaxerxes, the king of the
> Persians, he inspired Ezra, the priest of the tribe of Levi, to restore all
> the sayings of the prophets who had gone before, and to restore to the
> people the law given by Moses." This is Pascal's re
Ignorant superstition, nothing more.
JAM