(October 19, 2017 at 12:43 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Name one thing in the Bible that scientific knowledge has debunked.
What about numerous failures of prophecies? Would that do?
Isaiah 17:1. Damascus is predicted to cease to be a city. In fact, Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities.
Jeremiah 49:33 predicts that Hazor will become an everlasting wasteland in which humans will never again dwell and it will become inhabited by dragons. None of this has happened.
Zechariah 10:11. The Nile is predicted to dry up.
Ezekiel 29, 30. The land of Egypt will be laid waste by Nebuchadnezzar, all its people killed and rivers dried up. It will remain uninhabited for forty years. This did not happen.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"