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[quote]There isn't anything in the Bible that has ever been disproven,
Oh for suck sake! There's stupid and ignorant and then there are statements like that. We don't have to disprove ANYTHING,it's you who are making the claims, it's up to you to provide the evidence.Provide some or shut the fuck up. (sorry, feeling a bit frustrated)
Current archaeology:I refer you to " THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: Archaeology's New Vision Of Ancient Israel And the Origin Of Sacred Texts" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.
EG There was no large Davidic kingdom and that Moses and the Exodus are pure myth.
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People will believe things if them try hard enough. If you want to believe that arhaeology has disproved the Bible then that is up to you. The fact is, I cannot prove it is true to you if you do not want to accept it is. It is about faith, faith is irrational, but it dooesn't mean it is wrong in comparrison to what we know through science etc. For example, as I previously mentioned, people used to think the earth was flat and thought it ludricrous that it was anything but that. It is being close-minded to think there is nothig beyond what we can see with out own 2 eyes. Everyone has a soul, what happens to that when the body dies?
And the reason I believe in God is because he has changed my life, and I know this because of things that have happened to me. Furthermore, the Bible does not make sense if you are without faith, but if you have faith it makes sense and you suddenly realise that it is not irrational. I do not expect you to agree with me, or understand the faith I have. You will probably think I am a lunatic but if there was no God, things that I have come to know and experience would be unexplainable by science. At the end of the day, you belive what you want, I'll believe what I want, I just feel it is my duty to stand up for the gospel, which has given me a much happier life than I once had.
[quote]There isn't anything in the Bible that has ever been disproven,
Oh for suck sake! There's stupid and ignorant and then there are statements like that. We don't have to disprove ANYTHING,it's you who are making the claims, it's up to you to provide the evidence.Provide some or shut the fuck up. (sorry, feeling a bit frustrated)
Current archaeology:I refer you to " THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: Archaeology's New Vision Of Ancient Israel And the Origin Of Sacred Texts" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.
EG There was no large Davidic kingdom and that Moses and the Exodus are pure myth.
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People will believe things if them try hard enough. If you want to believe that arhaeology has disproved the Bible then that is up to you. The fact is, I cannot prove it is true to you if you do not want to accept it is. It is about faith, faith is irrational, but it dooesn't mean it is wrong in comparrison to what we know through science etc. For example, as I previously mentioned, people used to think the earth was flat and thought it ludricrous that it was anything but that. It is being close-minded to think there is nothig beyond what we can see with out own 2 eyes. Everyone has a soul, what happens to that when the body dies?
And the reason I believe in God is because he has changed my life, and I know this because of things that have happened to me. Furthermore, the Bible does not make sense if you are without faith, but if you have faith it makes sense and you suddenly realise that it is not irrational. I do not expect you to agree with me, or understand the faith I have. You will probably think I am a lunatic but if there was no God, things that I have come to know and experience would be unexplainable by science. At the end of the day, you belive what you want, I'll believe what I want, I just feel it is my duty to stand up for the gospel, which has given me a much happier life than I once had.
