6 January 2009, 10:22 am
When I was a kid, my foster parents took me to my first baseball game. I don't remember the name of the team we were playing against but I do remember there was a lot of people at the game. If you would have asked me how many people were at the game, I probably would have told you twenty thousand since I was only four years old at the time. Numbers were not my thing as a kid. And everyone knows, the Yankee stadium does not hold twenty thousand people. The last time I went to a baseball game was when I lived in California. The Angels were playing against the Chicago White Sox. Our church decided to see who knew how many fans were in the stadium. The person who came to the closest number would win a free meal during the game. I did not pick twenty thousand this time. I won't go into how many I picked (Embarrassing), but I will tell you, I had to buy my own food that night. I was off by a mile. Even my pastor was off. My point of this story is to say this. If you take ten people to a game and ask them to give you a count of how many people are at the stadium. All ten people will have a different count. Some may be close and some may be off. No one person is going to see the same thing that another person sees as far as the number of people in a large crowd. One author in the bible may have wrote 10.000 people. While another author may have wrote 14.000. I doubt serious if any of the writers knew exactly the count of people that were there, but guessing the same way I guess as a little child and as a grown man. Does this make the bible a contradiction in its story? No it doesn't. Does it make the authors liars? No it doesn't. This is what they saw and this is what they believe to be.... Read More »
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