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Article #12849Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: rbwinn
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:04
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:04
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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. > > With probably as much historical acccuracy as 'Conan the Barbarian'- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - The only writer of the new Testament who was a Roman citizen was Paul. Robert B. Winn
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