RE: I still don't understand why anyone would make up a person like the Biblical Christ..
August 13, 2011 at 12:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2011 at 12:37 pm by Minimalist.)
(August 13, 2011 at 9:45 am)dave4shmups Wrote:(August 12, 2011 at 10:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Although it was written by David,
And you know this because......................................?
I guess I don't know that. I am an Atheist, but one who is struggling with his disbelief. I need more resources, in terms of counter apologetics, with regards to the New Testament. I've visited various websites, like Iron Chariots, but any books would help.
Dave, they shitwits have concocted an entire fairy tale "history" of Ancient Canaan. It seems, to be charitable about it, as if they have taken a much later religious cult and written it into the rather bare-bones history of the region.
The northern kingdom, known as Bit Humri ( House of Omri) to the Assyrians, or "Israel" to the rest of us shows archaeological evidence that it got going in the 9th century BC and became some sort of regional power...until the Assyrians overran it in the late 8th century.
The southern kingdom, known as Judah, and perhaps as the House of David (Bit Dawid) on the Tel Dan Stele which is Aramic, was a poverty stricken semi-desert region of goat and sheep herders until in the late 9th century. No one conquered it because it wasn't worth the effort. Archaeology shows that it began to grow and prosper as part of the Assyrian empire ( it was a vassal state) on the Arabian trade. This continued until the late 8th century when a revolt by Hezekiah ( archaeologically attested in an Assyrian inscription ) led the Assyrians to kick the shit out of the country. They recovered in the 7th century under Manesseh ( also archaeologically attested ) and were caught in the middle of a power-struggle between the Babylonians on one side and the Assyrians and Egyptians on the other. Apparently, they were on the wrong side. The Babylonians destroyed the city of Jerusalem early in the 6th century.
There is no archaeological evidence for the Patriarchs, for a bondage period in Egypt, for an Exodus, for a Conquest of Canaan nor for a Great Davidic Empire.
Zero. Zilch. Nada. I recommend you get a copy of Israel Finkelstein's "The Bible Unearthed" and William Dever's "Who Were The Early Israelites....."
Of course, the more archaeology trashes their fucking bible the more the shitwits play the Madeline Kahn role from Blazing Saddles!
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=maci89&s=7
Great stuff, D-P!
