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Article #12930Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: Antares 531
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:17
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:17
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:56:34 GMT, Linda Fox <linda.ff@ntlworld.com> 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 > Linda, are you saying these "aural" traditions don't shed enough light on the matter? ;-)
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