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Article #12900Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: Linda Fox
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:56
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:56
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:23:59 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwinn3@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
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