Atheists interpret bible verses

[Fidel_Castronaut]

You either believe the testimony of others or you don't. I believe the testimony of the American civil war, Gandhi's work, as well as the claims of the bible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation

Testimony of the US Civil War and the work of Ghandi are not claims in of themselves but rather evidence of the given events occuring.

The claims made in the bible are just claims of a larger claim (i.e. The bible is the work of 'god', and that 'god' exists). It is thus a false equivocation to assert that the journal of a US Civil War soldier is the same as, say, Moses parting the red sea, or the Resurrection (etc). This brackets out the nature of extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence (soldiers in the civil war and Ghandi were not promising eternal salvation or supernatural powers).