This guy Jedi is trying to discredit the entire Bible by citing 1Kings 7:23:
23 He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it. (NIV)
Hiram's next project was to make the Sea—an immense round basin of cast metal fifteen feet in diameter, seven and a half feet tall, and forty-five feet in circumference. (The Message)
An NIV footnote says the measurements are "about 15 feet (about 4.5 meters)" and "about 45 feet (about 13.5 meters)"--"about", not "exactly".
Mathematically, however, Jedi has a point. Using a computer calculator, when I multiply 15 by a form of 3.1415926535897932384626433832... , I come up with a number starting with 47, such as 47.1225 or 47.123889803835. Ideally, the Bible should have said 47 feet, or 31 cubits. (Ten times 3.1415..., of course, would be 31.415..., the same numbers with the decimal point moved one space.)
What say you?
2007-04-29
13:52:43
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