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originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
The bible is the only source of history from ancient times that has that degree of historical accuracy because of that.
And if science provided a "body", or whatever evidence demanded by creationists, do you think they would ever accept it?
originally posted by: seabhac-rua
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
The bible is the only source of history from ancient times that has that degree of historical accuracy because of that.
Not at all true.
What makes the bible any more accurate than any other ancient writings?
originally posted by: tommyc1873
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
The statement he said was "Not at all true" was "The bible is the only source of history from ancient times that has that degree of historical accuracy because of that." And he's demonstrably correct. The bible is one of many texts, religious and otherwise, written in ancient times about ancient times. Nor is it even the oldest (I believe that honour would go to the Sumerian tablets?) I'm far from an expert on this stuff, so correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'm under the impression there are ancient texts from all over the world, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, Incan, Mayan etc. What makes the bible any more accurate than any other ancient writings?
originally posted by: GetHyped
a reply to: NoCorruptionAllowed
This reads like a rationalisation on your part to hand wave away all the inconsistencies and contradictions in the bible. It also conviniently allows you to interpret the bible however you please because "symbolism". The bible is littered with so many contradictions, inconsistencies and downright awful morality tales you'd have to be schizophrenic to live your life by it if you read it at face value. Which again, a lot of people posting here do, except they cherry pick the bits they like (genesis, for example) and conviniently ignore the horrid stuff (filicide, killing homosexuals, and so on).
originally posted by: NoCorruptionAllowed
a reply to: Barcs
Only up to the new testament, then those are all having happened very close in the timeline to each other.
Both old and new use an incredible amount of symbolism which was done on purpose to make people really have to work hard to discover the meanings. This was done to seperate those who don't care and don't want to know what those stories are trying to teach, from those who have humbled themselves and are willing to let the lessons teach their hearts and not let life and the world teach your own desires and egos instead. At least that is one way to look at it.