science, religion, metaphor, and history 127bic. Some Christians believe that the Bible was dictated (in Hebrew? Greek? Aramaic?
seventeenth-century English?) word for word to the various authors of the Bible, but
that has always been a minority view in Christian thought.- Hesse,Reality, 233.
- Russell,Heaven, 6–9. (Ontology is the philosophical understanding of “be-
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