Comments on: 1 Kings 7:23

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:45:50 +0000

I don’t know if anybody got the trick. My math teachers always tried to beat it into me that the square root of x squared is the absolute value of x, not just x. This is the greatest example of why. For anyone who doesn’t get it: replace the 3 in the first statement with four, and magically pi = 4 now instead.

By: Cairnarvon

Cairnarvon — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:56:56 +0000

I’m not dividing by 0 anywhere.
The Bible and Twilight must be the only books in the world for which just pointing out what’s in it counts as “bashing”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:48:53 +0000

it’s funny because you’re bashing the bible and dividing by 0 in one post

By: Cairnarvon

Cairnarvon — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:56:50 +0000

If we’re picking inaccurate translations to suit, the most popular Dutch translation (“Het Boek”) actually convert it to meters, with two digits after the ~~comma~~ period (so the circumference is off by half a meter). The NLT converts to feet, because the metric system is for commies, works with half feet, and is off by two feet.
Not much of an unchanging word of God, if people are just going to try to pretend the embarrassing bits don’t exist. I wonder if there’s a translation that fixes the claim that bats are birds.

By: hotaru

hotaru — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:44:39 +0000

a couple things worth mentioning in addition to the obviously wrong math:
1. “And he made the sea, ten in cubits from its rim to its rim; the same was round in a circle; it’s height was five in cubits and drawn together, *thirty-three* in cubits encompassed it.” (NETS, emphasis added)
2. note that these measurements are probably rounded to the nearest cubit, and the sea in question may not have been perfectly circular.

By: Factor my Posterior

Factor my Posterior — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:20:45 +0000

> (3-(pi+3)/2)^2 –> 3-(pi+3)/2 || (-0.0707963268)^2 –> 0.0707963268
dohoho~