Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Will Kinney's Space Argument

Will Kinney sometimes argues that one of the signs that the King James is the perfect word is that a portion of it was read in space by the Apollo 8 astronauts.  In a recent debate he stated:

"... reasons why the King James Bible is God's inerrant book and there are many reasons not just Blind Faith but there are a lot of reasons historical things that God has done with it in history it's the only Bible read from from outer space that'll never happen again they'll go up and read out of the Bible not going to happen not in today's society" 

(source)


I'm sure Will means well, but may be unaware of the fact that during the Apollo 11 mission, the Vatican had the following placed on the Moon:


 And at the same time, Israel had the following placed on the Moon:

(source of the above clips)

In 1996, the Torah was read in Hebrew in Space (link to source with photo).  Likewise, in 2003, Ilan Ramon brought a miniatured version of scriptures with him to space (link to source) during the final mission of the Columbia

It's a terrible, terrible argument that Will offers.  Love the brother, but avoid the argument.

1 comment:

Lacie said...

Yikes. Uninformed folks will go to great lengths, or shall I say distances, to promotes their beliefs.