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Article #12906Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:18
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:18
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Linda Fox wrote: > 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 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'
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