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18 maj 2008 · A wide variety of excuses have been devised to rescue the infallibility of the Book of First Kings, and explain this erroneous value of pi in the Bible. We've hand-picked some of the lamest, and made up a few more...:
- 1 Kings 7
Because pi is transcendent, it cannot be written down in a...
- 1 Kings 7
The Bible doesn't claim that Pi = 3. Solomon's Sea is flared out at the lip like a cup and there's no contradiction here. The distance around the hemisphere is measured below the flared portion while the diameter is measured across the rim.
5 mar 2024 · The disparagers of Solomon’s pi who claim the Bible says pi = 3 omit half the evidence. The rest of the parallel passages they cite from 1 Kings 7:23 and 2 Chronicles 4:2 shows their dogma is based on a hit-and-run calculation of a type that would make any undergraduates flunk their exam.
1 kwi 1998 · The real value of pi is 3.14159265358979, but is commonly approximated by 22/7. This is assumed, by many, to be an "error" in the Old Testament record, and is often presented as a skeptical rebuttal to the "inerrancy" of the Scripture.
18 maj 2008 · Because pi is transcendent, it cannot be written down in a finite string of numbers, not even in the Bible even if the Hebrews had decimal notation, which they didn't. Pi is also not rational and can therefore not be written down as the ratio between two other numbers.
10 cze 1999 · The biblical verse quoted (1 Kings 7:23) reads in part: “⃛measuring 10 cubits from rim to rim⃛ It took a line of of 30 cubits to measure around it”.
The Value of Pi in the Bible (And What It Tells Us about Biblical Hermeneutics) James H Cumming. 2023, Dogma - Revue de Philosophie Et de Sciences Humaines. This short article provides intriguing evidence that the Bible was encoded by its original redactors.
