On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:52:20AM -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On 11/8/05, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:03:45PM +0000, W. Borgert wrote:
>>> According to Christian belief, the bible is the "word of God". >>> According to Nietzsche (in 1882), "God is dead". So the author of >>> the bible is dead since at least 120 years. How can the copyright >>> still hold? >> Your argument is flawed: G-od is the direct author of the >> *original* version of *part* the Bible, namely the Pentateuch. The >> KJV is a derivative work made in the early 1600s. > And your argument is flawed. God himself didn't directly author any > part of the Bible at all. ;-) According to Christian doctrine, God > *inspired* various people to write the *entire Bible*. According to > Jewish doctrine, the same holds true for the Torah. Jewish "doctrine" says that the Torah (the Pentateuch) was *dictated* to Moses by G-od. Word by word (including the telling of Moses' death). According to the same doctrine, the rest of the Tanach (bible) is historical human-written records of G-od inspired events and containing records of G-od inspired speeches, etc. I'm not 100% sure if Christian doctrine diverges there. This is getting completely off-topic. Stopping here. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
