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On Jul 18, 4:53�pm, "Smiler" <Smi...@Joe.King.com> wrote:
> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> On Jul 16, 4:58?pm, "Smiler" <Smi...@Joe.King.com> wrote:
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> > "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> > On Jul 15, 1:18?am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
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> > > Linda Fox wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:23:59 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com>
> > > > wrote:
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> > > >> ? I really believe that it certainly does prove certain verses in the
> > > >> Old Testament to be true which describe the digging of Hezekiah's
> > > >> tunnel. ?Otherwise, atheists need to explain why there is a tunnel
> > > >> exactly where the Bible in three books of the Old Testament says a
> > > >> tunnel was dug as a conduit for water.
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> > > > Not all of the OT is theology - quite a fair amount of it is standard
> > > > Jewish history, whether by aural tradition or, in the later books,
> > > > written. As a parallel, we don't know how much of what we have from
> > > > Homer is true of Greece and Troy, since that too is based on aural
> > > > tradition which means it would have been embroidered, or even
> > > > falsified, along the way. My own feeling about that is that much of
> > > > the dynastic detail (apart from things like Helen being born out of
> > > > Leda by Zeus as a swan) is possibly more reliable because when it was
> > > > being passed down that was likely to have been the only kind of
> > > > chronicle they could make; just a theory, though, and I doubt we'll
> > > > ever know.
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> > > > Linda ff
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> > > surely its oral ?- as in spoken - rather than aural, as in
> > > heard..tradition..?
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> > > But broadly I agree. The Bible (OT) is the history, philosophy, myhology
> > > and moral codes of a bunch of desert tribes.
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> > > The NT is a political document written by the romans to keep the
> > > barbarians in their place.
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> > > With probably as much historical acccuracy as 'Conan the Barbarian'-
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> > The only writer of the new Testament who was a Roman citizen was Paul.
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> > All the writers were Roman citizens.
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> No, only Paul.
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> All of the gospels were written long after the supposed person they were
> attributed to would have been dead.
> Nobody knows who REALLY wrote them, but more than likely, the writers were
> Roman.
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> Smiler,

No, they were written by Paul.
Robert B. Winn