(January 11, 2016 at 6:58 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:the evidence in the ground suggests that the Bible is surprisingly reliable with regard to these things.
Now you have crossed over into simply lying.
Well....
Way earlier in this thread, I suggested that he was miss informed, and the consensus of archaeologists disagree with him.
But many pages further into this thread, since he is still making the same claim, "lying" may be a more accurate descriotion.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.