(April 19, 2017 at 9:17 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(April 18, 2017 at 10:06 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: It also doesn't follow, that just because there are similarities that one is copied or derived from the other.
When stories are borrowed, they are written to describe events that occurred long before but incorporate factual elements inconsistent with the period described. Unlike this, there is good evidence to suggest that the OT accounts where written within or very close to the events described. First there is a correspondence between names used in the biblical text and naming conventions found in outside contemporary sources. The second reason has to do with the price of goods. The few times prices for goods are given in the bible they also generally correspond with the prices and forms of payment found in outside contemporary sources. I'm sure with a little digging I can find those papers somewhere in my library. I send them to you when I find them. I'm sure you will find them interesting.
No sorry.
"We've sold this claim for centuries" does not equal fact. There are much older religions than Christianity, ones you don't buy. If logic worked like that then you should believe in the Hindu religion because it is far older, or even the Ancient Egyptian polytheism, or Zoroaster, or even Buddhist religion. ALL older than your religion.
None of you history of making copies of an old book and history of making bad claims about men popping out of dirt, or magic babies with super powers, none of that will ever be fact.
We can prove the existence of Ghandi but you are not Hindu or Sikh. We can prove the existence of Malala but you are not Muslim. We can prove the existence of the Dali Lama but you are not Buddhist.
How about you stop lying to us, but more importantly stop lying to yourself and be intellectually brave and consider you got it wrong. How about you consider humans make these clubs up and god claims up and pass them down to the next generation, not because they are true, because humans like the idea of a fictional "forever".