So can we conclude that perhaps the bible is not always teaching what we believe it is teaching ? Perhaps we try to conclude from what it says, conclusions that were not meant as such ?
Stephen: My Bible footnotes say that either the dimensions given were an approximation, or that the measurements were not taken taken from the same positions on the rim:>>
The foresight of those who wrote the bible originally to add footnotes is incredible. It is good to see how one has to speculate a lot about this unfortunate pi=3 measurement. Perhaps we are wrong about other 'measurements' as well ? Perhaps a 'day is not 24 hrs' for instance ? It's so easy to 'explain away' things in the bible. Heck all it takes are some 'footnotes' which I believe were not in the original documents ?