Re: Does God need to prove He exists?

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From: Linda Fox
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:04

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:18:36 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
wrote:

>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..?

Oops :o) must have been thinking about music exams as I typed, though
in fact it must have been both, mustn't it?

cheers
Linda ff

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