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On Jul 15, 1:18?am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
> Linda Fox wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:23:59 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com>
> > wrote:
>
> >> ? 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.
>
> > 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.
>
> > Linda ff
>
> surely its oral ?- as in spoken - rather than aural, as in
> heard..tradition..?
>
> But broadly I agree. The Bible (OT) is the history, philosophy, myhology
> and moral codes of a bunch of desert tribes.
>
> The NT is a political document written by the romans to keep the
> barbarians in their place.
>
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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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