A BAT IS A BIRD?

A BAT IS A BIRD?

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

  There are biblio-skeptics (A new word for us.) that delight in Bible passages like this one from Leviticus, “And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth. … And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Every raven after his kind; And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.” (Lev.11:1-2, 13-19)

  A bat is a bird? If God is creator of all life, all-knowing, and is the author of the book telling about animals . . . would this mistake be in his book? Doesn’t this prove that man wrote the Bible?

  It does not prove any such thing.

  I find it interesting that biblio-skeptic pseudo or actual intellectuals take time to critically scrutinize Scripture, but don’t invest in studying Scripture beyond English.

  We could attempt using the tomato conundrum to refute biblio-skeptics, but as the longtime veggie <=> fruit discussion continues, it would just be a debate. Or we could say ornithology was not yet then a wing of science with classifications.

  The actual answer in in the original language. The Hebrew word used in Leviticus 11:13 is “oph”, meaning fowl/winged creature, to fly, or has wings.

  So the answer is a bat is not a bird! God never said it is.  EBB4