# Tomndebb--rules question

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**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [October 17, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-rules-question/557455 "2010-10-17T17:12:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2010, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tomndebb-rules-question/557455/42 "2010-10-18T06:37:37Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> Let me repeat - what’s one more going to hurt? Just start a thread about your question.
> 
> You really don’t know how things work around here, do you?

I’m sure you can tell me.

> [@Miller](#):
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> And if you have an issue with one of **tom~**'s rulings, don’t bring it up in this thread. Start a new one to discuss it.

Well, more than one since his generous reply to my early OP.

> [@Calling All Bible Experts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-bible-experts/503536/5):
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> Just a note:
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> You’re probably on the wrong message board to seek a resolution of contradictions in the bible–and seriously the wrong message board for finding defenders of the bible based on claims that there are no contradicitions.
> 
> We have about three posters, (one active) who actually hold that position. The rest of the board is composed of posters who hold one of the following positions:
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> - believe it is all man-made nonsense that should be suppressed;
> - believe that it is man-made nonsense that might not need to be suppressed, but should be ignored by rational people;
> - believe that is is man-made attempts to express their beliefs in God without necessarily being inerrant;
> - believe that it is God’s Word expressed through fallible human agents, and thus subject to error
> - believe that it is God’s Word that may have apparent errors, but the errors are only examples of human misunderstanding.
> 
> (And, of course, any or none of those postions might be true without having any effect on the notion that the particular passages you quoted are examples of particular literary devices that might not need to be taken as either wholly true or wholly false, in any event.)
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> Good luck.

Well considered newbie instruction.

Since then, meh.

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